上节课来了的人可能记得,我谈到一个观点,现代国家的形成和民族国家的构建,是联系欧洲历史的一个主题

Now, one of the points I made last week, for those of you who were here, is that one of the themes that ties European history together is the growth of the modern state, of state-making.

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本尼迪克特.安德森 （Benedict Anderson ）认为，印刷术促使支离破碎的欧洲大陆上共用一种语言的读者自视为“想象共同体”，这对现代民族国家的形成极为重要。

Benedict Anderson thought print helped readers of a common language in a highly fragmented Europe think of themselves as an "imagined community, " crucial to forming the modern nation-state.

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尽管古希腊陪审制度与现代陪审制度不能等同，但它对后来西方国家陪审制度传统的形成具有历史意义。

Although the ancient Greece jury system and the modern jury system cannot equate, but it had the historical significance to afterwards the western nation jury system tradition formation.

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Even though decentralized England expands its bureaucracy and collected taxes much more efficiently than across the channel in France, state-making involved more officials there.

即使是在分权的英国 官僚政府也日益扩大,他们比海峡对岸的法国有着更多苛捐杂税,现代国家的形成需要更多的官员

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In these states, the modern world began to take form.

在这些国家中,现代世界的体制开始形成

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As I already suggested, and I would insist upon this again, that the consolidation of territorial rulers had already given the basis to an expanding, more formalized state structure, even in England.

我提到过 现在再强调一遍,国家的兼并,君权的加强为一个日益庞大,更有章法的现代国家的形成奠定了基础,在英格兰也是如此

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