We've got to figure out somehow how it is that consciousness is never completely uninhibited, never completely does and says what it wants to say.

我们无论如何都应找出,为什么意识永远不能完全不受拘束，永远不能完全表达它想表达的东西。

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He may mutilate his ears by piercing them. The middle Assyrian laws also legalized violence against a wife. "When she deserves it" a seignor may pull out the hair of his wife, mutilate or twist her ears.

可以刺伤其耳朵，另外，中亚述法律,也将对妻子的暴力行为合法化了，“如果她是应受的“,自由人可以拔其发，毁其耳。

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If this is true, Aristotle's Politics seems to stand condemned as the most antidemocratic book ever written.

如果这是真的，亚里士多德的《政治学》看似应受谴责,因它将是有史以来最反民主的著作。

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You're flogged 100 times and they pull out your hair and there's a monetary fine, and you do corvee, forced labor, for a month.

你应受100杖责，他们会拔去你的头发，还有罚金,同时还要服王家劳役一整个月。

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