He seems never to have been aware - until too late - that he could not order events on a nationwide scale in the same manner that a landlord could order events within a village.

他似乎从来不明白，用一个地主指挥全村事情那样的办法来指挥全国范围的事务是不行的。等他认识到这一点的时候已经太晚了。

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Matukar village recently got electricity, and they expect to have internet within a year.

Matukar村最近通上了电，而且预计一年之内可以通互联网。

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By the end of 2004 a total of 1, 704 kiosks had been set up, each of which served its host village and four others within a five-kilometre (three-mile) radius.

截至2004年末，总共已经建立1704个自助终端，每个终端服务于一个主村庄和四个方圆5公里(三英里)之内的村庄。

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About halfway between San Gimignano and Siena is Monteriggioni, a small medieval village perfectly preserved within its walls, with towers at regular intervals.

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But he quashed the council's registration of the West Beach as a village green because it fell within the Newhaven port area and was "incompatible with the statutory purpose for which the land is held".

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