From its very beginnings philosophy and the city philosophy and political life have stood in a sort of tension with one another.

从一开始，哲学与城邦,哲学与政治生活，彼此之间,即处于一种紧张的关系。

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So this was a highly charged political environment. Far more volatile than for example the kind of partisan quarrels we see today in our republic I hope.

所以那是十分紧张的政治环境,比我们当今所见的,共和政党争论,更加反复无常，希望如此。

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It stands in a relation of opposition to other regime types and as a consequence the possibility of conflict of tension and war is built in to the very structure of politics.

它站在一个与其它政体类型对立的位置,而且可能以冲突作结,或造成紧张局势,而战争更是建立在政治的结构之中。

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Rather they presuppose relations that is to say political relations not between lovers or even best friends of some kind but between civic partners who may in fact be intensely rivalrous and competitive with one another for positions of political office and honor.

相反地，他们假设的关系,确切地说是政治关系,并非介于爱人或甚至是最好朋友间的关系,而是介于公民伙伴间,他们可能处于,彼此紧张敌对或竞争的关系,以求争得政治官位或荣誉。

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