Also, if your patron wanted to run for a city office, your patron would expect you to be loyal and vote for him.

作为回报，如果庇护人要竞选官职，就会要求你投他一票。

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The citizen in an unqualified sense Aristotle writes is defined by no other thing so much as sharing in decision and office.

生活方式的人,亚里士多德写到公民的定义,从广义的观点看来不外乎就是分享决定和官职。

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Every regime is an answer to that question because every regime sets forward a way of distributing formally distributing powers and distributing offices among its citizen body.

每一个政体都是这问题的答案，因,为每一个政体提出了一种分配的方式,正式地分配权力,并将官职分配给其公民本体。

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The regime is an arrangement of a city he says with respect to its offices and every city will have a governing body that governing body being a regime.

他说，政体是一座城市对其官职的安排,而每一座城市,都会有一个统治本体,而这个统治本体即是政体。

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Or as he puts it a little bit later whoever is entitled to participate in an office involving deliberation or decision-making is a citizen of the city. Listen to the words he uses there in describing a citizen.

或像他稍后提到的,任何具参与官职资格的人,包含商议或决策，就是城市的公民,注意他所使用的字眼,看他如何形容公民。

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