and they did it,". He says reforms undertaken by communist dictatorships never lead to systemic change without an active opposition creating what he calls a "civil society movement."

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Always, oh yes always. You never, according to my understanding of this, you never, never want to be without your shield.

嗯,是这样,没错,根据我的理解,你永远不希望离开你的盾牌

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There's never been a successful third-party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.

美国就从没有过,第三政党真正成功执政的时候,因为缺乏一个真正重大的议题来支持它

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That is to say, when one can scarcely say the word "author" without thinking "authority," and one can definitely never say the word "authority" without thinking about the police.

意思就是说，当一个人说到“作者“,而想不到“权威“，或者一个人,在没想到警察的时候绝对不会想起“权威“这个字眼。

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There may be some sort of metaphysical laws that tie the two things so tightly together that you'll never actually get one without the other.

因为一些形而上学的定律,将两者紧密联系在一起,使你无法把其分离开来

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Derrida never really claims that you can do without it.

德里达从来没有说过，不这样做是可以的。

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