Aristotle appears to give two different accounts in the opening pages of the book that you might pay attention to.

亚里士多德在其书开头前几页,给出了两种不同的说法,你们要多加留意。

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And the appearance of conventionality is supported by the opening words of the book in his dedicatory letter.

且常规的表面,有本书开头前几个字正面背书,就在他的献辞中。

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Another example is at the very opening of the book: The train was racing through treetops that fell away at intervals and showed the sun standing very red on the edge of the farthest woods.

在书的最开头还有一个例子：,“在树林中，火车疾驰，若隐若现,时不时地露出远方树林,边缘的火红的夕阳,一旁是弯弯曲曲。

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Now, it's more complicated than that because it's not just sodium channels that are involved, there are potassium channels also, and the interplay between sodium channels opening and potassium channels opening, this is described in some detail in your book.

现在 事情更复杂了,因为这一过程不仅关系着钠离子通道,也关系着钾离子通道,以及钠离子通道和钾离子通道之间开关,的相互作用,书中有详细解释

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But I think you can see the big themes of the book already very present in the opening scene of the dialogue.

但我想你们已可以看出本书的大主题,在对话一开始,即非常明显地点出。

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You can see these opening pages of the book, dense argument being condensed in very deep ways, carry a great deal of freight.

你们可以看到书的开头前几页，密集的辩论都集结在那,且探得很深，包含很大量的材料。

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Note that in the opening pages of the book, Aristotle doesn't say anything yet about what kind of city or regime is best.

注意在书一开始的前几页，亚里士多德并未谈到,任何有关最佳城市或政体的言论。

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He begins his Metaphysics, his great book the Metaphysics, : with the famous opening statement, " "All men have a desire to know."

他开始了其著作《形上学》,他伟大的著作《形上学》,书中的开头陈述即是，“所有人都有求知欲“

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Why does the book begin with this, ? let's say, opening gambit?

为何书的开头如此，为何以妥协开头？

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