And so, when she comes to be isolated in this way, she can finally see and meditate upon, in a new way, all those systems of communication.

当她这样越来越被孤立的时候，她能够以一种新的方式，去思考那些交流的系统。

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The tradition is aristocracy; that's what we connect with the polis, and of course, it was natural, because it also fit into the world of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which they were accustomed to think about.

他们的传统是贵族政府,这是我们该和城邦联系起来的政体,当然,这也很自然,因为这也符合《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中的描写,他们习惯于用这样的方式去思考

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