It's for-profit and the theory that we have in capitalist countries is that this is a good model.

这是盈利性公司,这是种滋生于资本主义国家的理论,也是个很好的模式

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There is a return to these kinds of theoretical defences of absolutism that even preceded the growth of the absolute state as I've described it.

有一点需注意,对于绝对主义的理论辩护,甚至早于绝对主义国家的兴起,之前我已经描述过这个过程

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Some people in less-developed countries feel uncomfortable that they are just slavishly copying other, more advanced countries; but, they have to recognize that is what everybody has been doing all along.

欠发达国家的人,对他们模仿其他发达国家的理论发明，感到不安;,但是他们应该知道,大家一直都在这么做。

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