他辩称说，过分拥挤的城市是建立在“自私”和“贪婪”基础上的制度造成的。

He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity."

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事实上，一些基于私营企业的研究发现，随着女性在企业等级制度中的上升，女性的流动前景有所改善，而不是下降。

Indeed, several studies based on private-sector firms find that women' s mobility prospects improve, rather than decline, as they climb upward in corporate hierarchies.

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That at the base of all societies there has to be a labor system that will support the possibility of Plato.

在所有社会的基础上,必须有一个劳动制度,一个能供柏拉图施展他才华的制度

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That's not what the American constitution is about, but it was what the Greek constitutions were about.

美国宪法并非如此,但希腊史上的宪法制度却是如此的

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There are various arrangements, social arrangements, that can be just or unjust to varying degrees.

存在各种不同的制度,社会制度,它们在不同程度上是正义的或不正义的

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