It's merely limiting the number of gods worshipped to one, but it houses that God in a temple. It offers him sacrifices and so on.

这仅仅是把崇拜的神的数量缩减为一个，并且把这唯一的上帝供奉在寺庙里，对他进行供奉。

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But since we've got free will, we must be something more than a merely physical object.

但由于我们拥有自由意志,我们必定不只是纯粹的物理对象

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It is not a political treatise, as those who merely judge books by their title think, but it is the finest, " most beautiful work on education ever written."

这不是一本政治论述，不像众人浅薄地,从其书名所下的判断，而是一本最优，有史以来最典雅的教育著作“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The classical hoplite formation then was not the long lived military institution of scholarly tradition, but merely one phase in a history of almost four centuries of slow change towards ever denser and more cohesive heavy infantry formations."

这种方阵的形成,并不是经过长期传承的传统军事制度,只是步兵阵型演变的一个阶段,战阵逐渐向更加紧密坚固的步兵阵型转化,而这个变化持续了约有四个世纪"

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It is not enough merely to speak the same words, but in a sense, citizens must have certain common experiences, certain common memory and experience that shape a city and the people.

仅是说相同的话还不够，另一方面，公民还必需,要有特定的共同经历，特定的共同记忆,与形塑城市与人民的经历。

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Honor, in most societies, is thought to be not merely a personal quality, something like medieval chivalry but is above all group honor, the honor that surrounds the family, the extended clan, or the religious sect.

在许多社会中,荣誉不仅是追求骑士精神一样，对个人自豪感的追求,它更是一种集体的自豪感，比如一个大家族对自己的成就，或是一个教派对自己成就的荣誉感。

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