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.

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

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One of the greatest challenges will be making enough trained teachers and facilities available in state-run schools, especially in rural areas.

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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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And though you see there's something, you know-- I've been making the case that a polis is a different thing from any other city state.

尽管你了解了一些,你知道,我一直在说,城邦和其他城市国家是不同的

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The day after September's presidential run-off, when it became clear that Mr Yudhoyono had won, a number of former employees of Dirgantara Indonesia, the loss-making state-owned aircraft manufacturer, showed up on Mr Yudhoyono's doorstep to try to get their jobs back.

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Last year Mr Manos was kicked out of New Democracy, the centre-right opposition party, for refusing to oppose reforms at Olympic Airways, Greece's struggling state airline, and other loss-making state enterprises.

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The state ethics reform requires spouses of policy-making state employees to report any business activity that licensed or regulated by the state or any business he or she had with the state.

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