And that's when, if you had everybody come to the theater for a big debate about something, you could still have people voting on certain things that the city might decide to do, although they couldn't rule themselves completely by themselves.

所以当时，如果所有人到剧院,对某一问题进行辩论，还是可以通过投票,决定某些事情，虽然他们无法进行完全的民主统治。

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and there's a lot of similarities in culture and certain parts of the city.

这两个城市在文化等一些方面有些相似。

旧金山的天气 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So that's one of the most important things about Alexander and his successors is they Hellenized the entire eastern Mediterranean, and that meant every major city would have a certain commonality to it.

亚历山大及其继业者最大的成就之一,就是将整个地中海东部希腊化了，也就是说所有大城市都有共同点。

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That is to say a certain diversity is necessary to make up a city.

也就是说,某些差异是组成城市所必备。

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It is this sharing of certain common conceptions of the just and unjust that make a city.

是这种共享,一种特定的共同概念,关于正义与不公,造就了一座城市。

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It is not enough merely to speak the same words, but in a sense, citizens must have certain common experiences, certain common memory and experience that shape a city and the people.

仅是说相同的话还不够，另一方面，公民还必需,要有特定的共同经历，特定的共同记忆,与形塑城市与人民的经历。

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