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If so, then I wonder when the state apparatus of our socialist country has turned petitioning citizens as targets of suppression.

如果是，我想到了上访百姓为什么成了我们社会主义国家的国家机器打击的对象。

Thoreau doubts the effectiveness of reform within the government, and he argues that voting and petitioning for change achieves little.

梭罗的有效性的怀疑政府内部的改革，他认为，投票和上访的变化几乎没有实现。

California is one of 24 statesthat allow referendums, recalls and voter initiatives.

加利福尼亚州是24个州的一个，允许公民有投票，上访和选民的权利。

Since the beginning of this year, there have been large-scale forced abductions of appellants in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities.

今年以来，北京、上海等地对上访公民大批非法搜捕，公开的血腥暴力让人触目惊心。

On paper, the system allows the lowliest subjects to take complaints directly to the highest authority in the land.

理论上，这种上访制度让地位最卑微的民众可以直接向全国最高权力机构申诉。

What people don't seem to realise is that the match engine is such a fine balancing act, if the keepers were made less efficient we'd have people complaining that strikers were too good, scorelines were unrealistic, too many chances were created/scored and it would be the worst match engine ever for some, the best for others, if we kept it how it is the complainers on here would go crazy and say it was the worst match engine ever while others are saying it's the best, if it is tweaked it could make other things go wrong as well, say the defence and keeper were tweaked up, midfielders might start hitting all their passes to defenders, defenders might become super defenders....

什么人似乎不明白的是，比赛引擎是这样一个良好的平衡状态，如果饲养了低效率的，我们就得人抱怨说，罢工是不太好，scorelines是不现实的，也创造了很多机会/分和这将是最坏的比赛引擎一些有史以来最好他人，如果我们保持它是怎样在这里的上访会去疯狂，说这是有史以来最坏的比赛，而其他引擎的意思它是最棒的，如果是警戒层级可以作出其他的事情出了问题，以及，例如国防和门将经过了调整了，可能会开始打中场所有的通行证维护者，捍卫者有可能成为超级后卫。。。。

A Sichuan party leader said on an official website that Beijing's directive meant no less that ensuring zero tolerance to protesters, that "zero petitioners go to Beijing, zero go to provincial capitals, there are zero group petitions and zero mass incidents".

在一个官方的网站上一位四川的党委领导人说，北京的方针是确保对抗议者绝不姑息，那就是&无进京上访者，无上省会上访者，无集体上访事件，无大规模事件&。

On the one hand, it is florid, gorgeous songs and dances and shining light of the golden age, such as the Olympic Games opening ceremony, the Spring Festival gala, a variety of real estate opening ceremonies, nightclubs and urban neon; on the other hand, it is the dark realities of the rogue economy full of evil and injustice, such as demolitions, self-burning,"ant tribe" settlement villages, petitioners villages, begging or singing for a living, and even "the bones of the frozen and the starved lying outside the red-lacquered gates".

这种艺术景观跟我们的国家一样呈现出一个荒谬而差异并置的&进步&画面，一方面是华丽的歌舞升平和灯光四射的盛世景观，如奥运会开幕式、春节晚会、各种房地产开盘仪式、夜总会和都市霓虹灯；另一方面则是充满邪恶和不公正的流氓经济的黑暗现实，如强拆、自焚、蚁族聚居区、上访村、街头卖唱乞讨甚至路有冻死骨。

As pensioners gathered to sing old revolutionary songs, two guards with Secret-Service-style ear pieces looked on.

当上访人群聚在一起高唱革命老歌时，两名带有情报式耳塞的安保人员只是默默的看着。

Many believe that petitioners suffer from the lack of an independent judicial system.

许多人认为上访的问题来自于中国司法的非独立性。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷