Socrates, in other words, has broken the bond of tradition and traditional authority that holds the ancient city and the ancient family together.

苏格拉底，其实已经摧毁了,传统与传统权威间的联系,那可是维系古代城邦,与古代家庭的力量。

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And there is much in his writing that recalls the sort of extraordinary virtues and capacities of the citizens of the ancient republican city-state.

他的著作当中有许多响应,特别是美德,以及公民地位的论点,那是属于古代城邦共和所独有。

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Unlike the ancient near eastern cities, these towns do not grow up around a temple or a marketplace, confluence of rivers as they do in medieval Europe.

和古代近东的城市不同,这些城邦不以庙宇或集市为中心来扩展的,也不像中世纪的欧洲那样以河流交汇点为中心

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