Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The society is only the moral mature ones who bear witness.

这样的社会只有道德成熟的人才能见证。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It is only in the state of nature, he tells us, that individuals have the right to determine just and unjust, right and wrong for themselves.

他认为，只有在自然社会中，个人才有权力决定,什么是公正，不公正，什么是对什么是错。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He is conceivable to the Greeks only in a society.

对希腊人而言只有生存在社会中的人才真实

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We know that the way we enter into society is by consent, by agreement to leave the state of nature and to be governed by the majority and by a system of laws, human laws.

众所周知，只有经过同意，才能进入社会,才能脱离自然状态，并被大多数人,被人类法律体系所管辖。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And in the well governing of opinions consisteth the well governing of men's actions."

只有在人民给予肯定舆论的社会里,君主才能更好地掌控人民的作为“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Aristotle went on to say that the justice needed to control this dark side of human nature can be found only in a well ordered society of free people who govern themselves, and the only one that he knew was the Polis of the Greeks.

亚里士多德还说过,正义需要用来,控制人性的丑恶面,只有在公民自治的秩序井然的,社会里才能找得到正义,他所知道的这样的社会就是希腊城邦

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选