The platonic idea of justice concerns harmony, he tells us, both harmony in the city and harmony in the soul.

柏拉图式的正义观是关于和谐，他说到，那是关于城市的和谐与灵魂的和谐。

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People somehow got the idea that Los Angeles is just this wonderful city and so they started bidding up real estate prices.

不知怎么的人们就认为,洛杉矶是一个美好的城市,而且他们开始竞相抬升房地产的价格

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Okay, so this gives you some idea of the range of possible relationships between colony and mother city.

好了,那么这就使你们,对殖民地与母邦之间的关系,有了一定的了解

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That it is intended as a kind of joke to, in many ways, discredit the idea of the just city or at least to indicate its extreme implausibility.

目的是要用作戏谑，在很多方面，使人怀疑正义之城的概念,或至少是要指明其极难令人置信。

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But they kept this idea that the demos-- - that is, the adult citizen males of a city-- were a political body.

但是他们保留了Demos这个概念-,即城市的成年男性公民-,是一个政治群体。

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He rejects the idea that the city is defined simply by a group of people who inhabit a common territory the same space as it were.

他拒绝将城市简单定义为,一群人住在同一领土上的概念,即同一空间。

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And this idea that the city is essentially analogous to the soul, that the city is like the soul, is the central metaphor around which the entire Republic is constructed.

而这种,将城市视为实质上可与灵魂比拟的概念，城市也有灵魂的概念，即是环绕整部《理想国》,构建的核心隐喻。

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No matter what its constitution was, no matter how these differed from one another, the idea was that the state has to make good men and that for a city to be good, the men must be good.

不论宪法体制如何,不论世间千变万化,其主旨始终围绕着,政府必须培育良民,而只有公民优秀,才能让城市更加美好

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It seems to be presented entirely innocuously, no one in the dialogue objects to it, yet everything else follows from this idea that the city, the polis, is in the central respect like an individual, like the soul of an individual.

这似乎看起来完全无关紧要，所以对话中的每一个人都不反对，但之后所有的事都慢慢浮现,就从这个概念开始,城市、城邦，重视的核心与个人相同，也像个人的灵魂。

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