The Greeks already had a century's long tradition of poetic education going back centuries to the time of Homer and Hesiod that set out certain exemplary models of heroic virtue and civic life.

希腊人已有世纪长的,诗学教育传统,可回溯到几个世纪前的荷马,与赫西奥德，他们为,英雄美德与公民生活确立了典范。

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fanciful, virginal, kindly, safely out of fashion, full of a kind of civic virtue, the embodiment of a certain kind of popular idea of poetry.

富于幻想、纯洁善良、适时宜却不跟风潮流，一幅完满的公民美德形象，一个特定于诗的流行观点的化身。

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Another illustration of the difficulty of translating all values, in this case, a certain idea of virtue, into utilitarian terms.

这个例子再次说明,很难把所有的价值，此处特指某种德行，转换为功利主义形式。

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Measures indicating that well-being stalls beyond a certain modest level of affluence take no account of rising expectations, which are a virtue in themselves.

ECONOMIST: Can you be too rich?