They worship bigness yet idealize the little man, whether he be the small business man as opposed to the big one or the plain citizen as opposed to the big wheel.

他们崇拜大人物，也把小人物理想化，不论他是和大商人形成对照的小商人，还是和大权在握的人形成对照的平民百姓。

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They do not mean the freedom of the plain citizen to raise as much of a given crop as he wishes, to come and go at will, to settle where he pleases, to take his capital and other belongings with him.

他们的意思绝对不是说，平民百姓可以去种植任何他们想种的谷物并达到他们期望的产量、可以自由移民、可以自由支配自己的资本和财物。

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Ramos becomes plain Citizen Ramos, he wants his successor, Joseph Ejercito Estrada, to grant him one last request: that he be given full military honors as he leaves historic Barasoain Church north of Manila, the venue for the new president's oath-taking.

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