Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

-- Eric Liu 刘耀威

今天关于公民身份的讨论常常是空洞无物的。这个词在日常会话中有一种略微过时的感觉。当它在国家政治中被唤起时，通常伴随着文化战争迫击炮轰鸣而来。

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It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

并不是所有人都爱我。我们知道我不在新泽西。但在新泽西，人们确实说，‘我们喜欢他，我们认为他在告诉我们真相。他说，我认为我们需要在全国范围内推行这种政治。

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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

波希米亚不过是一个你不住的小地方。如果你想在那里获得公民身份，朝廷和随从们立刻把王室的档案和财宝打包，搬到山那边去。

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These are national problems that require national solutions.

这些是需要国家解决的全国性问题。

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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

公民就是为国家服务。

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