It consists of the entire way of life the moral and religious practices the habits customs and sentiments that make a people what they are.

它包含了整个生命的模式,道德上与宗教上的实作，习惯,风俗与情感,等形塑人格的一些元素。

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That is a very important difference that was, you had to act in such a way as to make life possible and decent, and for the Greeks that always meant being part of a decent community, the polis.

这也是个非常重要的区别,你得活出体面来,对于古希腊人而言就是,成为体面的社区即城邦的一部分

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