Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.

美德对他而言,是一种具男子气概的自作主张，胆大，冷酷，自助，且还会算计使用残忍手段,来达致目标。

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But rather that he is enormously clever, that he can use speech to achieve practical ends just as he uses strength and power, and all those other things.

更是指他非常聪明,他可以用演说来达到实际的目的,就像他使用力量,权力,以及所有其他的品质来达到目的一样

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All he tells us is that we are the polis animal by nature and that to achieve our ends, it will be necessary to live in a polis.

他只说到,我们是天生的城邦动物,为了达成目标，必需要住在城邦之中。

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Yeah, so maybe even among your roommates, maybe you don't need a contract because you can manage to achieve the same ends, by the fact that you're going to be interacting with the same person, over and over again during your time at Yale.

没错,就算你和室友没有书面协议,你们一样能达到预期的目的,因为在耶鲁大学上学期间,你们总要碰面

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