In the mental construction of the Dutch and the English both involves one thing they don't want to be.

在心理层面上,荷兰人和英国人,都不希望这件事的发生

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But I don't have any moral issue with plastic surgery if other people choose to have it.

有的人可能在道德层面上反对整容，不过我没有这种想法。

整容是个人自由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But after this umbrella level of equality come different types of people, and those different types of people are going to require different levels of rights. Gender, absolutely.

不过在这个平等的层面下,会有各类人等，这些形形色色的人会要求,不同层次的权利，性别肯定。

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How is a city like a soul and in what respect is self-governance, the control of one's passions and appetites, in what respect is self-control ? like the governance of a collective body?

城市如何像灵魂,且在哪些层面自管、,自控一个人的激情、欲望，在哪些层面,这些会像是管理一个集体？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Yes and no. It was fascinating to be as Wordsworth says, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive" -to be around in those days, but at the same time I think it's rather advantageous for us to be still "in theory."

可以说会，也可以说不会,正如华兹华斯所说，“能活在那黎明时光是何等幸福“,虽然过去对人有很大吸引力，但同时我们还是,只在理论层面研究比较好“

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His challenge to the poets is in a way the basis for the resentment that is built up against him in that Aristophanes and what he calls the earlier accusers have brought to bear.

他对诗人的挑战，某个层面来说,是对反对他的人所产生之愤恨的基础,这是亚里斯多芬尼斯及他所谓的,前代原告施加于他的。

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