Finally this passage tells us that under the right circumstances at least Aristotle suggests the Greeks could exercise a kind of universal rule if they chose.

最后，这一段落告诉我们的是,在恰当的情况下，至少如亚里士多德所建议,希腊可能行使某种寰宇规则,如果那是他们所做的选择。

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It's not merely a negative thing the way I think modern ideas about law, as for instance, represented in the American Constitution are, which is to say, its function is to prevent wrong doing, to punish wrong doing.

我的理解是,这里的法律,不仅仅指当今的法律条款,比如美国宪法所代表的那些内容,也就是,行使防范错误行为,以及惩罚错误行为的职能

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