Well, you should be absolutely unexcited because it doesn't mean anything; if they were giving you extra shares and just you alone, that would be great--that would be good.

你根本不应该感到高兴,因为这没有什么意义,如果他们只给你一人发放股票,这就是件好事

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And many have imagined," one thinks here of Plato, perhaps, but also to Christianity" Many have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen " or known to exist in truth.

因为已有太多的梦想家“,其中一人即柏拉图，但也可能是基督教“,“已有太多对共和,与君权的幻想,而那从来都未真实地存在。

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So, you have these diets and you have these parliaments, but one of the characteristics of absolute rule is that you don't have to call these bodies because the king is the big person.

所以,虽然设有国会,议会,绝对主义国家的特点之一,就是君主不必召开这些代议机构,因为他一人说了算

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