But this decentralized federalist structure is part of who they thought they were and who they continue to think they are.

这种联邦制分权的政治架构,是他们对自己现在及将来身份的认知

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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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The Federal Open Market Committee makes monetary policy so it's decentralized and long terms.

联邦公开市场监察小组,制定货币政策,所以它是分权并且长期的。

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And,even though it's decentralized, it does not mean that the State is not strong, and that the State will not be making decisions that will affect the lives of ordinary people.

而尽管进行了去中央集权化,但并不代表国家不强,或者国家做不了,影响普通人生活的决定

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But Amsterdam reflects this kind of primacy of the global economy, because it's such an important trading power, but also this federalist decentralized aspect that I've tried to describe.

但是当时的阿姆斯特丹反应了,一种全球化经济的趋势,因为它是非常重要的一股贸易势力,而联邦分权制的政体,正如我刚才说的,也是同等重要

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The tradition of these decentralized city-states that were the heart of the Renaissance.

这些城邦国家自治的传统,确实是文艺复兴的核心所在

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Very, very different than this federalist decentralized structure of both of these countries.

这就跟两个联邦制分权结构完全不同

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There was a case of a very minor insurrection in an obscure Italian city in 1848 where the people of the town literally locked the ruler out of the town-- and Italy remains decentralized.

在1848年,有一场小规模叛乱,发生在一个意大利的小城里,人们把统治者锁在城门外面,如今意大利仍然是四分五裂的

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Both of these states are decentralized states.

两个国家都是分权制政体

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