Well, the Greeks had no concept of natural rights, or of rights that human beings were given by the gods.

当然,古希腊人没有自然权利,或者天赋人权的概念

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And... I mean, sometimes they can and sometimes they can't.

但是，我想说的是，这些房东有时有权利这样做，有时没有权利这样做，

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And probably his most famous line, "Men are not born entitled to equal rights.

下面是他最著名的一句话,"人们生来就没有同等的权利

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Over the long run, Great Britain remains a constitutional monarchy even in the nineteenth century, when Victoria had great prestige, she did not have great power.

长久以来,英国保持着君主立宪制,即使到了十九世纪,当维多利亚女王获得无上荣耀的时候,她并没有获得太多权利

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The first was the objection, the claim that utilitarianism, " by concerning itself with the greatest good for the greatest number, fails adequately to respect individual rights.

第一点异议，是说功利主义，只关注“为最多的人谋求最大的幸福，没有充分地尊重个人权利。

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Well, what Thersites had done that was wrong, of course the poet and Odysseus didn't like his policy suggestion, but he had no right to speak at all.

诚然,书中认为忒尔西忒斯的做法是不对的,显然诗人和奥德修斯不喜欢他的政策建议,但他却根本连发言的权利都没有

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JFK, when making the plea for equal rights, didn't produce an abstract philosophical argument but rather tried to invite his listeners who were white to engage in perspective taking.

当肯尼迪呼吁实行平等权利时，他并没有提出抽象的哲学理由,而请求那些听他呼吁的白人,从黑人的角度进行思考。

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Natural right is mutable because different circumstances will require different kinds of decisions. So does this mean then that for Aristotle there are no universally valid ? standards of justice or right?

自然权利是易变的，因为不同的情况,将需要不同种的决策,这是否就意谓着亚里士多德,认为没有寰宇合法的,正义与权利标准？

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You could put everything on this line, I think there may be, I'm not really allowed to do this on this model, the one thing I can't do is, part of the truth is that Bud Light might be down here somewhere but I'm not allowed to do that.

你可以把任何东西放在这条线上,我想那也许是,我实际上并没有权利在这个模型中这么做,我不能做的是,起码百威淡啤酒应该在这上的某个位置,但我没权利这么做

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And it turns out that if you could take it to our own day, there are no limits pretty much to what he can do to gain pleasure.

结果是,如果你把它放到今天,那么个人追求快乐的权利是没有限制的

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You're struck by the equality from the standpoint of riches of the dead nobility. No great distinction and no great riches either. You're dealing with a poorer world and a world that doesn't have this kind of outstanding monarchy.

贵族们那种在死亡面前一切平等,一视同仁的观点,很令人惊讶,那时没有很富有的阶层,只有赤贫阶层和,没有掌握权利的君主阶层

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And by a "state of nature" he means, or by a state of war, he means a condition where there is no recognized authority in his language to keep us in awe, no authority to awe us.

而且通过“自然状态，或者通过战争状态，他意在说明一种状态,在他的说法里没有一个被认可的权力,将我们维持在敬畏中，没有权利使我们敬畏。

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