In other words, liberty for the ancients was a collective good, the liberty, as he says, to resist or invade other people.

也就是说，古人的自由是集体的自由,是他们这个集体拥有抵抗和入侵他人的自由，而非每个个体。

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For the ancients, liberty meant living in a self-governing republic, living in a republic in which everyone again took some share in the ruling offices.

古人认为自由即意味着,生活在一个拥有自治权的共和国里，一个人人都有机会,治理国家的地方。

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That's not what the ancients believed.

古代人并不这么认为。

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They would have had to be damn fools to have settled there without that being in their minds, although some of the places where they settled leave us puzzled, and have left the ancients puzzled.

如果不是这样的话,他们的脑子就是进水了,确实是有一些殖民地建立在不毛之地,这让我们和古人都很困惑

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Liberty, in other words, for the ancients was not just a property of the individual.

但对他们而言,自由不包含私有财产这一概念。

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In other words, he hoped to revive in some way the spirit of the ancients of antiquity, but to modify it in the lights of his own experience.

换句话说，他希望能够,复兴远古先贤的精神，但加入,他个人的亲身经历。

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The ancients, he believes, operated with a defective understanding of human freedom.

他认为古人对,何为人的自由的理解是不完整的。

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And here he distinguishes the liberty of, what he calls the liberty of the ancients, or what he doesn't exactly call but I'll call the liberty of the ancients and the liberty of the moderns.

他在这里为我们辨析了，现代自由与古典自由，可能他是叫作古典自由的吧,或者他根本没有给它一个具体的名字,不过我很愿意叫它古典自由。

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The ancients had a beautiful word or at least the Greeks had a beautiful word for this quest for this desire for knowledge of the best regime.

古人有一个美丽的字眼,至少希腊文有这么一个美丽的字眼,送给寻道者，追寻最优政体知识的欲望。

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