The first rule of any state is the rule that citizens are not free to set aside the rules, to choose among them which ones to obey and to disobey.

任何国家的第一条法规,永远是公民不能自由地逍遥法外，选择他们想要,服从与违抗的法规。

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And this universality was given expression in Dante's famous treatise, De Monarchia, of monarchy, that set out a model for a universal Christian state, based on the unity and oneness of the human race under a Christian ruler.

而这种特性可追溯,至但丁的著名论述《论王权》,探讨君主政权,这设定了一种普遍基督国的模式，根据统一,与独一的人种皆受基督王权的统治。

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And so, if you rewind the tape and play it again over and over and over again, each time you set things up the very same way they must move or transform or change or end up in the very same state.

所以,如果你将一盘磁带,反反复复地播放,每次你播放的内容,从头到尾的起承转合一定是,绝对一致的

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