Only a small city, small enough to be governed by relations of trust, can be political, in Aristotle's sense of the term.

仅有一座小城，小到能由信任的关系来管治，才能称作是政治社会，这是以亚里士多德的标准看来。

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vote on the base of what they believe ,and not on the basis of what the facts are.

是依据信任来投票,而不是根据事实而投票的。

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So, what you might say is a Socratic citizen to do, he will either be accused of being ironic and not be believed or he will simply be disbelieved if he attempts to defend himself on rational or philosophical grounds.

你可能会说，一位苏格拉底时代公民被指控的原因,可能是嘲讽和不被相信,或根本就不被信任,如果他试图,从理性或达观的立场来捍卫自己。

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