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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And so it appears, the three conversations end, Book I ends with uncertainty about what justice is.

而这显露出在三段会话结束时，在第一册结束时,正义仍是无法确定的概念。

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Now the first the eat food: well he has a long discussion, and as you'll know from the book, about what is food?

他做了大篇幅关于饮食的讨论,你可以从书中了解到,什么是食物

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What Siegel emphasized--the book is really about this-- he talks about what is the expected return of stocks and what is the expected return of bonds and so on.

西格尔强调的是。。。这书真正讲的是-,他讨论了什么是股票预期投资收益,以及什么是预期投资债券等等内容。

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Is it a book about the power of poetry and myth, what we would call the whole domain of culture to shape souls and to shape our societies?

这是本关于诗学与神话力量的书吗，即我们所谓形塑灵魂的文化整体范畴,同时亦形塑了我们的社会？

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Is it a book about what we today might call moral psychology ? and the right ordering of the human soul, which is a prominent theme addressed in this work?

或是一本,我们在今日所谓道德心理学,及人类灵魂之正义规范的书，因这些重要的主题正是本作品所大量陈述？

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But I want to start with what is one of the grand themes of the Republic, it is indicated in Book II by Adeimantus' speech about self-control.

但我想从《理想国》中的,一个重要主题开场，在第，II，册,由，Adeimantus，关于自控的谈话中所引出。

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