What Alexander had wanted to do was to take all these different peoples, who spoke different languages and had different customs, and use a Greek layer to sort of unite his empire overall.

亚历山大的理想是，让所有说不同语言，不同习俗的民族，用一种希腊文化统一帝国。

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The large polyglot, multiethnic communities of today would not, on Aristotle's account, allow for sufficient mutual trust and friendship to count as a healthy political community.

大量精通数种语言者，今日的多民族小区，在亚里士多德看来，将无法提供足够的相互信任与友爱,因此无法被认作是健康的政治社群。

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A polyglot army, too, because of all the different nationalities.

他们来自不同的民族,说不同的语言

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