We are political animals, he says, because participation in the life of the city is necessary for the achievement of human excellence, for the achievement of our well-being.

他说，我们是政治动物，因为参与城市生活,才能达致,人类卓越，也才能达致我们的福祉。

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Now, I think in certain circumstances it becomes necessary to overlook that unjustness, perhaps condone that injustice as in the case of the cabin boy being killed for food.

我认为在某些情况下,我们需要忽视这种不公平，容忍这种不正义,例如在救生艇里被当作食物的男孩。

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The trick--The question we're going to ask is, can we find some interpretation of that claim under which, first of all it ends up being true, secondly,it ends up being a necessary truth about death?

关键我们要问的问题是，我们能否能对这说法找到一个诠释，首先，这个诠释必须是真实的，第二，这是对死亡来说必要的真实？

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All of these three things, in my judgment, are necessary to understand how the polis came into being, how it came to be what it was, and how it came to fulfill and believe in these ideas that I have just been telling you about.

所有这三个事情,在我看来,对于了解城邦是如何产生,如何成型,以及如何实现,和验证那些我刚刚,告诉你们的理念,是不可或缺的

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