One fine May morning not long ago my oldest son, 17 at the time, phoned to tell me that he had just spent a couple hours at the state police barracks.

不久前5月的一个晴朗的早晨，我17岁的大儿子，打电话告诉我，他刚刚在州警局呆了几小时。

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Can you tell me the way to the police station? Oh, it just across from the food market over there.

你能告诉我去警察局的路吗？哦，就在那边的菜市场对面。

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I would just talk to my son and tell him it wasn't his job to police the whole world and he should always ask himself who is in charge before he does something.

我要是你，就会直接找儿子谈谈，我会直接告诉他，管理整个世界不是他该干的，在他采取行动时应该先问问自己，到底谁是管事的。

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In the United States, the numbers alone tell the story: there are over 700, 000 state and local police compared to just 12, 000 FBI agents.

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