Regimes or constitutions you might say are forms or formalities that determine how power is shared and distributed among citizens.

政体或宪法是一堆形式或形态,那决定了权力如何,共享与分配给其公民。

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The inevitable conclusion that I reach and I believe any sensible reader of Aristotle would reach is that Aristotle in fact discovered the American Constitution 1 500 or 2 000 years before it was written.

但会得到结论,且我相信,任何敏感的亚里士多德读者都会得到的结论是,亚里士多德，事实上,早在美国宪法写就之前的,1，500，或，2，000，年即已创建。

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In fact the title of the book that you will be reading part of for this semester Plato's Republic is actually a translation "POLITEA" of the Greek word politea that means constitution or regime.

事实上，本学期阅读书目中,你们将会读到的一部份,即柏拉图的《理想国》,书名其实是译自希腊文的,意即宪法或政体。

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