These stories, the stories we hear from earliest childhood on, shape us in some very meaningful sense for the rest of our lives.

这些故事，我们从小听到大的故事，形塑了一些我们一生,最有意义的观念。

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This becomes a very, very large issue because the notion that there should be a real connection between citizenship in the full sense and military performance is totally a Greek idea--I mean, the Greeks just totally accept that idea.

这是一个很大的问题,因为完全意义上的公民,和参与军事行动是相联系的,这个观念完全是希腊式的,我指的是,被希腊人广泛接受的观念

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