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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该制度通过对碳排放进行定价（实际上就是要收费），因而应当会减少排放，并且可以促进企业开发利用清洁能源技术。

Either system should, by setting a price on carbon, discourage its emission; and, in doing so, encourage the development and use of cleaner-energy technologies.

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亚洲协会负责人朱迪-基拉昌德说，在中国，很少有制度性的障碍阻挠女性实现职业上的成功。

In China, there are fewer institutional barriers for women trying to succeed professionally, says Judi Kilachand, an executive director at the Asia Society.

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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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