The sovereign is not the direct expression of my will or your will, but rather an abstraction from my natural desire to rule myself.

君主制不是对我的，或者你的意志的直接表达,不如说是一种抽象概念,是源于自己统治自己的自然愿望。

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There are philosophers-- and here I'll tip my hat and say, I'm one of them--there are philosophers who believe that, in fact, the idea of free will is not incompatible with determinism.

有哲学家,这里我要对他们敬意并声明,我也是他们中的一员,有哲学家相信,事实上,自由意志的观点,和决定论并非是不相容的

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I assume what Socrates means by that is though each individual will, each of us, embody all three features of soul, appetite, spirit, and reason, only one of these will be the dominate trait in each of us.

我假定苏格拉底是指,虽然每个个体，我们每一个人，都将体现灵魂,欲望，意志与理性的全部三种特质，而仅有其中一项,会主宰我们每一个人。

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Adeimantus If Adeimantus, again, expresses the appetitive part of the soul, Glaucon represents the quality that Plato calls spiritedness, or thumos in Greek.

如果，表达的是灵魂的欲望，则，Glaucon，代表的即是质量,柏拉图所称的意志或是希腊文，Thumos，一字。

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But even still when we think of it, if I am a member of the money making class, I am still more than simply a bundle of desires and appetites, just as a member of the warrior class would be clearly more than mere thumos or mere spiritedness.

但即使在我们思考之后，如果我是商人阶级的一员，我仍然不会,只有欲望与渴求，就像如果我是战士阶级的一员,将肯定不会,只有，Thumos，或说意志。

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