through the exercise of political responsibility, which means responsibility for and oversight of one's fellow citizens and the common good.

仅有透过政治责任的运作才能获得，那责任意谓着,看顾某人的同邦公民,及公共利益。

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Would you do that if justice means paying your debts "? and giving back to each what is owed?"

正义要做何解释,如果那意谓着偿还你的债务,并归还你所欠的东西“

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There are winners and there are losers, and the more someone wins that means the more someone else will lose.

有赢家有输家，当有人赢多些,即意谓着有人要输多些。

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Natural right is mutable because different circumstances will require different kinds of decisions. So does this mean then that for Aristotle there are no universally valid ? standards of justice or right?

自然权利是易变的，因为不同的情况,将需要不同种的决策,这是否就意谓着亚里士多德,认为没有寰宇合法的,正义与权利标准？

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What does that mean--we are the political animal.

但，“我们都是政治动物“意谓着什么。

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Maybe you want to argue it and we could have a discussion, but it might mean that American democracy, or democracy of any kind, helps to produce a particular kind of democratic soul.

也许你想争辩，果真如此,我们可以另作讨论，但那也许意谓着,美式民主，或任何一种民主，协助产生了,特定种类的民主灵魂。

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More specifically, what does it mean to say that an individual can be seen ? as magnified in his or her country, or that one's country is simply the collective expression of certain individual traits of character?

更确切地说，如果我们提到一个人,可以被视为是其国家的放大镜,那意谓着什么，或是某人的国家,就是特定,个人特征的集体呈现？

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Self-rule means self-restraint.

自我管理意谓着自我克制。

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Impiety need not be the same thing as atheism although Meletus confuses the two but it does suggest irreverence even blasphemy toward the things that a society ? cares most deeply about. Yes?

亵渎神明不必然等同于无神论,但Meletus将两者搞混了,但那的确意谓着不敬,甚至是亵渎那些,社会最深刻关切旳事务，是吧？

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