So as one reads the epic one senses this very deep ambivalence regarding the relative virtues and evils of civilized life and many of the features that make us human.

当人们读到这一段的时候，总是会对文明生活方式的利弊,产生一种很矛盾的感情,然而正是这些特性让人区别于动物。

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Where the good citizen is relative to the regime you might say regime-specific the good human being so he believes is good everywhere.

好公民与政体相关，那是对特定的政体而言,但好人，他相信,在那里都是好人。

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Citizen virtue is relative or we might say regime relative. Only in the best regime he says will the good citizen and the good human being ? be the same. But what is the best regime?

公民美德是相对的，或我们也可说,政体是相对的，他说，仅在最佳政体之中,好公民才会和好人等同,但什么是最佳政体？

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