What does Socrates mean when he says his way of life has been devoted almost exclusively ? to private rather than to public matters?

当苏格拉底说,自己的生活方式,只专注在私人而非公共事务时,是什么意思？

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When the Treasury in the United States sells Treasury bills notes and bonds they deal almost exclusively or we say primarily--with broker-dealers not the general public.

当美国的财政部,卖出国库券，票据，债券时,他们几乎是私下交易的,或者说首先与经纪自营商交易,而不是大众市场。

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And so these are the things people care about a lot and they're the ones that popular diet books are built around almost exclusively: that you should eat low fat, you should eat low carbs, high fat, they're all kinds of permutations of these that exist out there.

所以大量营养素是人们所关注的,它们也是,现在流行的饮食书籍所围绕的话题,类似人们应该吃的低脂或者应该低碳高脂,各种各样的说法都有

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