destructions and cataclysms, civilizations are reduced to

灾难与毁灭文明还原为原始
barbarism only to recover and grow again.

但终究一日会再一次茁壮恢复
If this theory, you might say, of sort of

也许你们会说如果这个世界周期
cataclysmic change is true, we cannot rule out the possibility

变革的理论是确实的我们就不能排除
that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at

亚里士多德早在远古的时期就创立了
some point in the ancient past, in the far distant past that

跟宪法相似或者跟现在宪法一样的法律的
Aristotle knew about.

可能性
Do you think that's possible?

你们认为可能吗
Well, why not?

对为什么不这样认为呢
But Aristotle's mixed constitution differs from ours still in certain

但是亚里士多德的混合宪法与当今
important respects.

宪法在某些重要方面却仍有不一样
Aristotle understands the mixed constitution as a balance of classes--

亚里士多德明白混合宪法是个人