What is so different? What's different about having one God, from having a pantheon of gods headed by a superior god?

二者差别这么大吗？只信奉一个神，与信奉由一个主神领导的诸神有什么不同？

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So platina is like a diminutive of silver, but we now know that platinum is far superior to silver It is far more noble. It has a higher melting point, a higher chemical inertness, a fantastic metal.

所以普拉塔就像一个小小的银，但我们现在知道普拉塔比银要好很多,更为珍贵，熔点更高，化学惰性更高，是一种非常不可思议的金属。

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There is somebody in that world called a basileus, who is a single individual who is understood to be superior in some way to everybody else.

那里有一种叫做巴赛勒斯的人,他被认为是一个天资比,其他人更好的人

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Again, each of them seems to represent, in a superior way, the key components of the human soul, the appetitive, the war-like or spirited, and the rational.

每一位角色，似乎都代表着，较优秀的人类灵魂的关键构成要素，欲望，战士精神，以及理性。

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The best regime embodies a supreme paradox it would seem. It is superior in some ways to all actual regimes but it has no concrete existence anywhere.

最优的政体体现了至高的矛盾,看起来，它似乎在某些层面,优于所有现行的政体,但却缺乏具体的存在事实。

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In some instances,these notes are superior to the text There is a reason for it.

有些时候，这些笔记是优于课本的,有原因的。

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