Between 1975 and 1979, as many as two million Cambodians were murdered,starved, or worked to death as the ultra-communist Khmer Rouge tried to build a rural utopia.

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The remainder of the Republic is, again, devoted to crafting the regime that will produce a distinctive kind of human character, and that of course is why the book is a utopia.

理想国》的往后章节，是全面致力于刻划能催化,独特人类性格的政体，那也当然就是为何此书是本乌托邦。

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But Plato's book is a utopia.

但柏拉图的书的确是乌托邦。

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All of Milton's expectations that England might actually be transformed, and they were glorious expectations, into something like a Puritan utopia or even a Puritan paradise -- all of that had been destroyed.

弥尔顿壮丽的期望，将英格兰转变成一个，清教徒乌托邦，甚至是清教徒天堂的期望,统统破灭了。

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The Republic is also a utopia, a word that Plato does not use, was not coined until many, many centuries later by Sir Thomas More.

理想国》也是乌托邦，一个柏拉图不使用的词汇，直到数个世纪之后,才由Sir，Thomas，More，杜撰出来。

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It would seem that far from utopia, the Republic represents a radical dystopia, a satire, in some sense, of the best polity.

这让《理想国》看起来远不像是乌托邦，反像是极端的反乌托邦，从某些层面看来像是在讽刺所谓最佳政体。

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