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But what do one billion people living in utter poverty (300 million on less than one dollar a day) and deprived of any rights think of this enlightened despotism?但10亿极端贫困（3亿人每天还挣不到1美元）并被剥夺了所有权利的国民将怎样看待这样的文明专制？© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.01.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.01.2011
Doing virtually no good while dramatically decreasing energy efficiency and increasing air pollution merely threatens any hope for enlightened public policy.在几乎没有任何效果的同时大幅度降低能源效率和加重空气污染只会对实行开明公共政策的希望造成威胁。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 16.02.2011
China’s mad rush toward fuqiang (wealth and power) has given it little chance to develop all the compensatory institutions that any truly developed, not to say enlightened, society needs to achieve equilibrium and social health.中国向富强的狂奔使它很难有机会来发展所有的补偿机构，而这是任何真正发达更别提是开明的社会为实现平等和社会的健康所必需要做到的。© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.12.2010© Project Syndicate 1995 – 2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/ 23.12.2010
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enlighten
verb
| Basic forms | |
|---|---|
| Past | enlightened |
| Imperative | enlighten |
| Present Participle (Participle I) | enlightening |
| Past Participle (Participle II) | enlightened |
| Present Indefinite, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I enlighten | we enlighten |
| you enlighten | you enlighten |
| he/she/it enlightens | they enlighten |
| Present Continuous, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I am enlightening | we are enlightening |
| you are enlightening | you are enlightening |
| he/she/it is enlightening | they are enlightening |
| Present Perfect, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I have enlightened | we have enlightened |
| you have enlightened | you have enlightened |
| he/she/it has enlightened | they have enlightened |
| Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I have been enlightening | we have been enlightening |
| you have been enlightening | you have been enlightening |
| he/she/it has been enlightening | they have been enlightening |
| Past Indefinite, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I enlightened | we enlightened |
| you enlightened | you enlightened |
| he/she/it enlightened | they enlightened |
| Past Continuous, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I was enlightening | we were enlightening |
| you were enlightening | you were enlightening |
| he/she/it was enlightening | they were enlightening |
| Past Perfect, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I had enlightened | we had enlightened |
| you had enlightened | you had enlightened |
| he/she/it had enlightened | they had enlightened |
| Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I had been enlightening | we had been enlightening |
| you had been enlightening | you had been enlightening |
| he/she/it had been enlightening | they had been enlightening |
| Future Indefinite, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I shall/will enlighten | we shall/will enlighten |
| you will enlighten | you will enlighten |
| he/she/it will enlighten | they will enlighten |
| Future Continuous, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I shall/will be enlightening | we shall/will be enlightening |
| you will be enlightening | you will be enlightening |
| he/she/it will be enlightening | they will be enlightening |
| Future Perfect, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I shall/will have enlightened | we shall/will have enlightened |
| you will have enlightened | you will have enlightened |
| he/she/it will have enlightened | they will have enlightened |
| Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I shall/will have been enlightening | we shall/will have been enlightening |
| you will have been enlightening | you will have been enlightening |
| he/she/it will have been enlightening | they will have been enlightening |
| Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I should/would enlighten | we should/would enlighten |
| you would enlighten | you would enlighten |
| he/she/it would enlighten | they would enlighten |
| Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I should/would be enlightening | we should/would be enlightening |
| you would be enlightening | you would be enlightening |
| he/she/it would be enlightening | they would be enlightening |
| Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I should/would have enlightened | we should/would have enlightened |
| you would have enlightened | you would have enlightened |
| he/she/it would have enlightened | they would have enlightened |
| Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
|---|---|
| I should/would have been enlightening | we should/would have been enlightening |
| you would have been enlightening | you would have been enlightening |
| he/she/it would have been enlightening | they would have been enlightening |
| Present Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
|---|---|
| I am enlightened | we are enlightened |
| you are enlightened | you are enlightened |
| he/she/it is enlightened | they are enlightened |
| Present Continuous, Passive Voice | |
|---|---|
| I am being enlightened | we are being enlightened |
| you are being enlightened | you are being enlightened |
| he/she/it is being enlightened | they are being enlightened |
| Present Perfect, Passive Voice | |
|---|---|
| I have been enlightened | we have been enlightened |
| you have been enlightened | you have been enlightened |
| he/she/it has been enlightened | they have been enlightened |
| Past Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
|---|---|
| I was enlightened | we were enlightened |
| you were enlightened | you were enlightened |
| he/she/it was enlightened | they were enlightened |
| Past Continuous, Passive Voice | |
|---|---|
| I was being enlightened | we were being enlightened |
| you were being enlightened | you were being enlightened |
| he/she/it was being enlightened | they were being enlightened |
| Past Perfect, Passive Voice | |
|---|---|
| I had been enlightened | we had been enlightened |
| you had been enlightened | you had been enlightened |
| he/she/it had been enlightened | they had been enlightened |
| Future Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
|---|---|
| I shall/will be enlightened | we shall/will be enlightened |
| you will be enlightened | you will be enlightened |
| he/she/it will be enlightened | they will be enlightened |
| Future Perfect, Passive Voice | |
|---|---|
| I shall/will have been enlightened | we shall/will have been enlightened |
| you will have been enlightened | you will have been enlightened |
| he/she/it will have been enlightened | they will have been enlightened |