This political life came to be shared by a relatively large portion of the people and participation of political life was highly valued by the Greeks.

政治生活自诞生起,就被绝大多数的民众所分享,希腊人高度重视,政治生活的参与度

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So, practitioners who understood what we would know to be chemistry were highly valued in that society. And then, you may expand it to other chemical processes, dyeing of cloth, glassmaking, and metals extraction.

所以，理解我们所知为化学的,先行者们，在那个社会是,非常宝贵的，当时，你可能将其扩展到另一个化学过程，如布料的染色，玻璃的制造，还有金属提取。

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They did something that society valued highly.

他们做的事对社会非常重要。

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