It's this drive to constant self-definition that becomes the characteristic feature of Milton's work for later generations.

就是这种对自我界定的欲望,变成了弥尔顿留给后人的,作品的典型特征。

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All laws are by definition just, he tells us, but it doesn't follow that all laws are by definition good.

所有的法律均是以公平和正义为界定的，但人们并不以此为据,而是以这部法律是“好“还是“不好“为界定。

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But then, it seems that property, what counts as property is not natural but conventional defined by the government.

但然后，他的意思似乎是如何界定财产权,不是与生俱来而是约定俗成的，是由政府定义的。

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And so this is not like a math problem set or a physics problem set. Or, like a high school physics lab, where we all know what the answer should be, and you could fake your lab results anyway.

或是物理问题集合,又或者是高中的物理实验室，我们对这些问题都有确切的答案，或者你可以把你的实验结果改成正确的，有些事情是不能明确界定的。

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It's an extraordinarily dark way to characterize the composition and the process of the poem.

这样来界定创作诗歌的过程,是一种非常不好的方式。

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There were precursors to this, but the SEC forces the difference between public and private securities and this is a very important distinction.

例如证交会强制界定了,公共券商与私募券商之间的差异,这是非常重要的划分

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Of course, with cities we typically find a whole association of cultural characteristics, which we deem civilization.

当然,我们总能从城市中找到一系列,独具代表性的文化特征,我们将其界定义为文明

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Now people are beginning to question whether this should define what a food is.

有人就要质疑了,这到底能不能界定食物的范畴呢

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All right, so it might be that again, the problem with enforcement, although actually in 1880 America, it's not clear that they couldn't have enforced that contract.

好的,但是我刚才说了强制性的问题,虽然说那是1880年的美国,当时这种合同是否违法没有明确的界定

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I own them in the limited sense that I can use them for myself, but I can't trade them away.

我拥有票，但也界定了我只能自己使用，但不能出售它们。

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This issue received a kind of classic formulation in Aristotle's distinction of what he called the good human being and the good citizen.

这个议题接纳了一种经典的公式,即亚里士多德界定,何谓好人与好公民。

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That there be property, that there be respect for life and liberty is what limits government.

对财产的界定，对生命与自由尊重的界定,就是限制政府的因素。

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So, for example, in around 1900 in America or a little bit earlier, let's say 1880 in America, it really isn't clear that it was illegal to write agreements to say we'll restrict quantities.

比如1900年甚至更早的美国,假如是1880年的美国吧,在当时这种限制产量的合同是否违法,在司法上没有明确的界定

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But what counts as respecting my life and respecting my property, that is for governments to decide and to define.

但到底怎样才算对生命和财产的尊重，这是由政府来决定和界定的。

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Machiavelli uses these two psychological and even in some ways quasi-medical terms, humors, to designate two classes of people on which every society is based.

马基雅维利运用这两个心理学上的,甚至某种程度上准医学的术语，人民特质，来界定两种不同阶级的人,每个社会都以此为基础。

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Typically, we speak of the Bronze Age, the Mycenaean Period and so on, followed by the Dark Ages, but after that,you started having refined terms which derive actually from the world of the history of art.

通常,我们会说,青铜时代,迈锡尼文明时代,等等,之后是黑暗时代,但是在那之后,开始有精确的术语来界定时代,这些术语实际上源于艺术史的领域

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