By building certain political institutions that would channel the flawed, imperfect human nature toward the good.

通过建立某种政治机构,引导有缺陷的，不完美的人性向好的方面发展。

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why political institutions are the way they are,

为什么政治体制是这样的方式，

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Religious and political institutions and beliefs have been thoroughly intertwined as a mutually supportive unified structure.

政府机构和信仰,渐渐成为统一体,相互支撑,不可分割

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Plato's desire for a kind of radical makeover, of Athenian and Greek political institutions and cultures, grew out of his experience of political defeat and despair.

柏拉图想要彻底改变，雅典及希腊,政治制度及文化的欲望，来自他的,政治挫折及失望。

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You should be sharing your risks with someone who's completely different-- probably living on the other side of the world in a completely different industry, where the weather, the institutions, and the political situation are completely different.

你应该跟,与你截然不同的人-,也许是住在世界另一端的人,从事毫不相关的行业的人，生活在完全不同的气候，制度，以及政治环境里的人来分摊。

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One way of thinking about the metaphor of city and soul together is to think of it as a particular kind of causal hypothesis, about the formation of both individual character and political institutions.

思考城市与灵魂结合的方法,是将其想象成,是一种特别类型的,因果假说，关于形塑,个人性格与政治制度。

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For thinkers like Tocqueville for example regimes are embedded in the deep structures of human history that have determined over long centuries the shape of our political institutions and the way we think about them.

举例来说，对于像托克维尔之类的思想家而言,政体内嵌于人类历史的结构深处,许多世纪以来决定了,我们政治机构的形态,及我们对它们的看法。

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