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that man is political by nature is not just to say that we become fully human by participating with others in a city.

说人类天生具有政治性,并非意指,我们能成为完整的人,仅是和城市中的其它人共同参与。

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Nature supplies the standards, the materials, the models, for all the later arts, the city being by nature, man by nature, nature provides the standard.

自然提供了标准，物质，模型，为后来产生的艺术，为城市，为人类的存在，是自然提供了一切标准。

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In what sense, we could ask ourselves and I think you probably will be asking in your sections, ? in what sense is the city by nature?

就何种意义而言，我们能自问,且我想你们也应该,会在你们的时段讨论，就何种意义而言，城市是自然演变的存在？

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A city is in its nature a multitude.

城市的本质是拥有一大群人。

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So what follows, in one sense, that when Aristotle says that man is by nature a political animal and the city is by nature, the city can never be a universal state.

这响应了，亚里士多德所说,人类天生是政治动物,而城市是自然的演变，城市永远不能是一座万国之城。

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On the third page of the Politics where he remarks that every city or every polis exists by nature, and he goes on to infer from this Zoon Politikon that man is what he calls the zoon politikon, the political animal, the polis animal.

在《政治学》第三页,他谈到,每座城市或城邦是自然发展的存在，他并进而藉此推论,人类是他所谓的，即政治动物，城邦动物。

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