来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第11集 第11集》

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  The rights of individuals were disregarded.
  个人的权利被无视
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  The population was not consulted about being moved,
  在进行人口迁移前并没有与普通群众商量
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  and it was an operation of colossal complexity.
  其操作是繁重而又错综复杂的
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  All of the affairs of one of the greatest cities in France,
  法国这一最大最宏伟的都市
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  the great city in France,
  其所有事务
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  were gathered into a single pair of hands:
  都被集中到一双手中
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  finance, administration, transport, sanitation,
  其财政 管理 交通 卫生
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  engineering, architecture,
  工程 建筑
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  evictions, expropriation of land by eminent domain,
  因征地权而驱逐人口
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  slum clearance, gas fixtures and lighting, sewers.
  消除贫民窟 电气照明 下水道系统
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  All of this was an enormous assertion,
  所有的这一切
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  then, of state power.
  都是国家政权强有力的宣称