Aristotle lived at the virtual cusp of the world of the autonomous city-state of the Greek polis.

亚里士多德住在可说是希腊城邦世界中,最顶尖的自治城市。

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We want to share things, but we want to get more scientific about how we share things and that means-- and we want to be effective.

我们才想要分摊风险，但我们得用更科学的方式,也可说是更有效率的方式-,来分摊风险。

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Does this policy of principled disobedience, you might say vindicate or indict Socrates of the charge of corruption and impiety ? that has been brought against him?

这种原则性反抗的策略，可说是证明,或判定苏格拉底,腐化与亵渎神明,罪名的证据吗？

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He became an authority, really one could say the authority on virtually everything.

他成为权威，一位真正可说是,几乎所有事物的权威。

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Who was this strange and elusive man whose writings seem to have been enlisted both for the support of monarchy and for republics, even for a universal monarchy and a smaller participatory democratic kind of government?

这位奇怪，难以理解的人是谁,他的写作似乎同时横跨,支持君主政体及共和政体两个范畴，甚至可说是一种世界帝国,和相较下,式微的参与式共和政府？

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It is our logos our reason that makes a community possible and also expresses or creates you could say a certain latitude or indeterminacy in how our behavior distinguishes us from other species.

那是我们的，Logos，我们的理性,使社群成为一种可能,并能表达或创造出,一种可说是转圜或不确定,存在于我们的行为之中,让我们有别于其它物种。

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