You won't get everything I'm talking about in the lectures, if all you do is the readings.

你同样无法了解我在讲座中所讲的全部，如果你只是一味的阅读。

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You can't understand a regime unless you understand so to speak what it stands for what a people stand for what they look up to as well as its again its structure of institutions and rights and privileges.

你无法了解政体,除非你了解它的主张,人民的主张与敬重的政体,还有其机构,权利与福利的结构。

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