What we are creating is a community of pleasure and pain.

我们在创建的,是一个苦乐并存的社群。

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And in such situations where the very survival of the community may be at stake we might call these emergency situations the conscientious statesmen must be able to respond appropriately.

而在这种情势下,社群的存活可能面临考验,我们可以称这些为紧急情势,谨慎的，政治家,必需能适时地回应。

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To be a political animal means first to possess speech or reason that allows us to participate in a community or a way of life governed by shared standards of justice and injustice.

要成为政治动物的首要,是拥有演说或理性的能力,以让我们参与社群,或由共享公正,与不公标准所统治的生活方式。

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It is our logos our reason that makes a community possible and also expresses or creates you could say a certain latitude or indeterminacy in how our behavior distinguishes us from other species.

那是我们的，Logos，我们的理性,使社群成为一种可能,并能表达或创造出,一种可说是转圜或不确定,存在于我们的行为之中,让我们有别于其它物种。

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