The philosopher is described by Plato as someone with knowledge of the eternal forms, lying behind or beyond the many particulars.

哲学家在柏拉图的形容下,是拥有永恒知识，置身于许多特殊事物之后或之外的人。

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God can impart holiness to, he can sanctify, persons and places and things when they're brought into a specific kind of relationship with him, a relationship that's best described as a relationship of ownership.

上帝可以将神圣给予一些人、地方，和事物,如果它们能够和上帝产生某种特殊的联系，对这个关系的最好描述就是从属关系。

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In Greece you have a lot of war and you have a lot of freedom, and all of that is tied up, I think very much, with the development of this very special thing called the polis.

在希腊,存在着无数战争,但同时也存在着无限自由,我认为,战争和自由之所以,紧密相连,密不可分,是因为城邦这一特殊事物的维系

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