I'm thinking of the general problem of the abstraction of virtue, an abstract notion of virtue. Think of all the questions that all of us at some point or other tend to associate with virtue.

我在思考贞操这个抽象概念，贞操这一抽象的概念，想想所有那些,我们时不时的会由贞操想到的问题。

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since he is born with weapons for the use of wisdom and virtue, he may use them for the opposite ends.

人生下来就有可以运用智慧和美德的利器,但人也可以用这利器反其道行之

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And I think it's impossible not to see that when Milton substitutes the virtue charity with the far more circumscribed ideal of chastity.

而我认为当弥尔顿把更加局限的贞操去代替局限的仁爱时,这不可能读不出来,虽然贞洁更加局限。

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What is this new kind of citizen again ? concerned with this kind of private virtue ? this concern for the virtue of one's soul?

新型态公民,关心的个人美德为何,关心灵魂美德是啥？

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But we shouldn't confuse the physical things which can be just, the people who can be virtuous to one degree or another, with perfect virtue or perfect justice.

但是我们不应该把可能正义的现实事物,比如,多少有些,德行的人,同完美的德性或完美的正义相混淆

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If you decide to buy it, it has one particular virtue and that is you end up with an excellent library of classical music that will last you for a lifetime.

如果你决定买一套,那么你将拥有一个,可以伴随你一生的,非常棒的古典音乐图书馆

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For injustice is most dangerous when it is armed and man armed by nature with good sense and virtue may use them for entirely opposite ends.

因为非正义一旦被武装起来将最为危险,好人也可能利用,善心和美德而为非作歹

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Virtue is invariably rewarded with glory and evil evil is always punished. In this amazing image, it's gathered like scum in some eternal cesspool ! where it's self-fed and self-consumed -- problem solved!

总能获得荣光，而邪恶,总会受到惩治，这是个绝佳的画面，邪恶像是永远堆积在粪坑中的糟粕,只能自生自灭--这样就无可担忧了！

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Polemarchus But Socrates challenges Polemarchus to a group, any group, cannot be a virtue in itself, and he trips Polemarchus up with a very, in many ways, familiar Socratic argument "? "Do we ever make mistakes?"

但苏格拉底仍挑战,对一个团体或任何团体忠诚本身，并不能当作是一种美德，他对付，Polemarchus，的方式,是大家非常熟悉的苏老式辩论,“我们曾犯错吗“

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