Not only is expulsion from the ranks of the guardians penalty for cowardice, but Socrates suggests there should be, listen to this, " "erotic rewards for those who excel in bravery."

不只是要排除,各类守护者视为不良行为的懦弱，苏格拉底更暗示应要有，听听这个，“色情作为对最勇敢者的奖赏“

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Another point about this sort of ambivalence about being czar is that he often made a point of choosing his most trusted advisors from the ranks of commoners and gave them the right to become titled after a certain amount of time after a certain amount of time in the royal bureaucracy.

他作为沙皇矛盾的另一点是,他最信任的顾问,常常是从普通民众中选出来的,而且经过一段时间后,他会在皇家官僚机构中给他们一个头衔

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He was a master of English style and prose, and his work ranks among the very greatest in this or any other language.

他是英文写作的大师，他的作品不管在哪种语言里,都是佼佼者。

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I'm going to look sort of with some care at these passages - so all will become clear, but particularly in this: Sidney-- and I didn't exactly quote the passage in which Sidney does this - but I urged you to believe that he does-- Sidney actually ranks poetry somewhere between divinity and the other sciences.

我会重点讲这点,等我讲完你们就明白了-,我不读他的原句了,但我想让你们知道，西德尼的确-,将诗歌排在了,神学和其他科学之间。

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The way the Dutch thought about themselves is a little different than the way the French nobility or the Spanish nobles, at least at the higher ranks, thought about themselves as well.

荷兰贵族看待自己的方式,与法国还有西班牙的贵族相比,有点不同,至少高级贵族,对自己是这么看待的

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He did not ever imagine the abandonment of the table of ranks, which set everybody in a hierarchy, not for a minute-- we're talking about the end of the end of the 17th and 18th century.

他绝不会想要抛弃一个,把每个人都划分阶层的等级社会,从来没有动过这个念头,我们说的是在十七世纪末到十八世纪初

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