"For we assert," he says, "nature does nothing in vain and man alone " among the animals has speech.

他说，“因为我们主张自然演变并不无道理,而人类独立于其它动物之外,是因为我们有辩论能力。

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The polis is natural in the sense that it has grown out of smaller and lesser forms of human association.

城邦是自然的演变,因为它源自,较小单位形式的人类结合。

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Aristotle's claim about naturalness seems to require, as he told us, slavery, the categorical distinction of humanity into masters and slaves.

亚里士多德关于自然演变的主张,似乎包含了奴役，分类地,将人类区别成主与奴。

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He seems there to be a kind of anthropologist writing a natural history.

他看似,以人类学家角色写自然演变史。

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So what follows, in one sense, that when Aristotle says that man is by nature a political animal and the city is by nature, the city can never be a universal state.

这响应了，亚里士多德所说,人类天生是政治动物,而城市是自然的演变，城市永远不能是一座万国之城。

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The city is natural in that it allows human beings to achieve and perfect what he calls their telos.

城市是自然的演变,它让人类可以达成,并完善他们被称为，Telos，的目标。

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