Yet, the authority of Aristotle obviously no longer has quite the power that it once did.

但亚里士多德的权威明显地,已不再拥有昔日力道。

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How would you have had the great Greek playwrights, they would argue, without the system, the world the Greeks were able to create with the Helots?

还有伟大的古希腊戏剧家是怎样来的,没有这个制度,希腊人怎能用奴隶创造昔日的繁荣

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But the message isn't that optimistic sort of that life is short, enjoy it. It's more that the past is no good to us and we can't rekindle the past.

但是其所传达的信息并不是乐观的，不是那种,生命短暂，尽情享受的想法，此外,过去于我们无益，我们也无法使昔日之火复燃。

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