So, now he has decided to do it and he's gained recognition from the town council, let's say, and he can go forward.

好了,现在他想去建立一个殖民地,并且他得到了人民大会的批准,也就是,万事具备了

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And it is here that Socrates turns to his first and perhaps even his most controversial proposal for the establishment of the just city.

而也是在此时间点上,苏格拉底带出他的第一个也,或许是他最引人非议的建议,只为建立正义之城。

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Hobbes wants this sort of dictatorship to keep people from brawling in the state of nature.

他希望建立一个类似独裁的政府,以制止人们在"自然状态"下的争斗

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He wanted to build an electronic car company.

他想建立一个电子汽车公司。

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What is more typical, I think, is that he thinks, I would like to take and have found a colony on the southeastern coast of Sicily. Why?

比较常见的是,我觉得,他会说,我想要在西西里的东南海岸,建立一个殖民地,为什么呢

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He established a religion, first a sect, you might say, then a religion, then eventually an empire, the Holy Roman Empire, that was established in the name of that teaching.

他建立了一个宗教，一开始是个宗派，然后是宗教，最后成为一个帝国，神圣罗马帝国，即是按着他,教诲的名义而建立。

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We'll see more about that in a minute, in part because of its overwhelming religious influence and that's one reason, besides the quest for a port on the sea, why he builds St. Petersburg.

稍后,我们会再次谈到这一点,他之所以建造圣彼得堡,除了要建立一个出海口这个原因,还因为莫斯科的宗教势力根深蒂固

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The barriers to unity presented by European geography and very limited technology made it hard for a would-be conqueror to create a vast empire, eliminating competitors and imposing his will over vast areas.

由于欧洲独特的地理条件,和当时有限的科技水平,使未来的征伐者很难建立一个广袤的帝国,清除异己和使他的意志,传播到广袤领地的每一个角落

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