Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

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The polis, as Aristotle as well as Plato clearly understand, is a small society, what could be called today a closed society.

如亚里士多德及柏拉图清楚明白,是一个小型的社会，即今日所称的封闭社会。

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And it's a worldview deeply rooted in the idea or respect for tradition; tradition and social control.

还是一个深深的,根植于传统思想,尊重传统的世界观,即传统和社会控制

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Societies, based on shame,as opposed to those that practice guilt; guilt is something very internal and personal.

即基于羞耻心的社会,和基于内疚感的社会相对,内疚感是非常内在的,私人的

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The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.

这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西

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What a society finds most praiseworthy what it looks up to okay?

即社会觉得最可嘉,最值得敬重的政体？

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His examples are typically drawn from situations of human beings or polities in extremes where the very survival or independence of a society is at stake.

他的范例是,典型地取材自人类,或政体在极端下的处境,即当存活或一个社会的独立,已面临考验。

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His study of the regime that is to say the underlying constitutional principles that govern each order is what distinguishes Aristotle from the other social scientists.

他对政体的研究,也就是说,潜在且管理,每一种规范的宪法原则,即是让亚里士多德不同于,其它社会科学家的地方。

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