课文开始 ：If a nation is essentially disunited, it is left to the government to hold it together. This increases the expense of government, and reduces correspondingly the amount of economic resources that could be used for developing the country. ...
state ：政治概念
state law ：国家法律
state visit ：国事访问
correspondingly: therefore , so
He wrote me 5 letters, correspondingly I answered 5.
接下来课文...And it should not be forgotten how small those resources are in a poor and backward country. Where the cost of government is high, resources for development are correspondingly low. ...
where 可当作 if 来理解 : Where there is life, there is hope.留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。