And what he does and what his work does is basically explain why people choose to back one political party versus the other; why they choose to live one kind of life versus the other.

他的工作和作品的贡献在于解释了,人们为什么会选择一个党派反对另一个;,为什么会选择一种生活方式摒弃另一种。

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This particular copy was pretty dog-eared; As a matter of fact, it was a paperback copy and I think it was in about eight or ten different pieces and the people that threw this party remembered that, so they gave me it at this celebration.

我用过的那本已经翻烂了,实际上,那是本平装版,我想书脊也不知断了八处还是十处,组织派对的人还记得,在派对上把这本书给了我作纪念

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That's why all these arguments that we all get into these days about third-party political candidates what do we really need in our political culture, what would break apart the stagnation of our two-party system, if that's what people want or put more directly, will Michael Bloomberg run or not?

这就是我们今天为何面对这些争论,关于第三方党派的候选人,也就是我们的政治文化中究竟需要什么,什么能打破我们两党制停滞不前的现状呢,如果这是人民所愿,或者更直接的说,迈克尔.布隆伯格的做法行得通吗

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We want to note something about the particular people who inhabit this dinner party that Socrates and Glaucon have been promised.

我们想要点出,一些特别突出的人物,他们存在于,苏格拉底及，Glaucon，受邀的晚宴之中。

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