You had to make--or your employer can do it for you-- they take the money to the post office and the post office would give you stamps.

你自己或者你的老板可以帮你-,将钱交到邮局,然后邮局把邮票给你。

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Germany was very effective in these-- they had advanced bureaucracy, a good postal service, and they had a network of post offices all over the country-- every little town had a post office.

德国人处理此事非常有效-,他们推进了行政机制和邮政服务，出现了全国范围的邮局网-,每个小镇都有一所邮局。

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In its place, a republic was re-established where Machiavelli occupied the office of secretary to the second chancery, a kind of diplomatic post which he held for 14 years from 1498 to 1512.

取而代之的是一个共和的重新建立,其中马奇亚维利,占据国务院及副总理职，一种类似外交官的职位,他在职，14，年，从，1498，年到，1512，年。

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They would pull out your entire life history of contributions-- they had it because you had filed it all at the post office and everything was bureaucratic and efficient-- and they calculated, according to a formula, what you would get.

政府会取出你这一生的交保记录-,这是由你自己在邮局填写的,所有的一切都行之有效-,然后他们根据公式计算你能得到养老金。

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