But just to make it concrete and to see what's at stake, consider the distribution of wealth in the United States.

但为了更形象，看看问题何在，以美国的财富分配状况为例。

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Sociologically unlike the philosopher is a person of some inherited wealth chiefly landed property but whose way of life will be urban.

亚里士多德清楚地指明,不像哲学家,前者继承了一定程度的财富,主要是地产,但其生活模式。

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But at some point you have to understand that the benefits of redistribution of wealth don't justify the initial violation of the property right.

但某种程度上说，你得明白,财富重新分配的好处,并不能为侵犯财产权正名。

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You konw, the British practicing mercantilism passed navigation acts, saying what ships could carry what and so on -nothing like that in the Greek world.

例如英国以颁布《航海法》,来体现重商主义,他们认为船能带来各种各样的财富,但在希腊不是这样

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The temptations that Mammon offers Guyon are literally within the story itself temptations of wealth, but they're also temptations to the wealth of classical learning, the wealth of the entire classical heritage.

贪神向盖恩抛出的诱惑,从字面上说这个故事讲的是财富的诱惑，但实际上它要表达的是学习古典文献所得财富的诱惑，也是整个古典文学遗产财富带来的诱惑。

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So control of these international highways brought a great deal of wealth to the area, but the central location was a double-edged sword, because in times of peace it would bring prosperity, but, of course, in times of war the land was perpetually invaded as armies would crisscross the land going off to do battle with the great powers.

对这些国际要道的控制,给这个地区带来了大量的财富，但这处于中心的地理位置也如同一把双刃剑，因为在和平时期它带来繁荣，但，在战乱时期，这块土地常常被侵略,当军队在此刀刃相交,或者经过与强国征战。

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You certainly could make the case that it is not... their wealth is not appropriate to the goodness in their hearts, but that's not really the morally relevant issue.

你当然可以举出例子来。,说他们的财富与他们的良善不相当，但这与道义无关。

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In addition Aristotle tells us such a person will possess beautiful but useless things suggesting the possession not only of wealth but of a kind of cultivated aesthetic sense.

此外，亚里士多德告诉我们,这类的人还将会拥有一些美丽,但无用的东西,不只拥有财富,还有一种经教化的美感。

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Yet despite his awareness of the importance of commerce and the importance of property the aim of the city he tells us is not wealth is not the production of wealth.

他虽然注意到,商业与财产的重要性,但城市存在的主要目的,如他说到,并非财富,并非创造财富。

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