来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论 第9集 第9集》

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  unified--the city--it will no longer be a city.
  那么 城市便不再是城市
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  A city is, in its nature, a multitude.
  城市应是人们自然聚居在一起的地方
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  As it becomes more of a unity, it will be like a household instead
  假使城市趋向于一致 那便不是都市而
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  of a polis and a human being instead of a household.
  更像是家庭 而家庭便更像是个个体
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  There we see in Book II, Aristotle offering his criticism of
  所以我们可以在第二册中看到亚里士多德
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  the claims for the sort of excessive unification of centralization,
  是如何对过度地要求集中
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  concentration of property.
  财产共有作出批评
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  Yet, despite his awareness of the importance of commerce and the
  尽管他意识到商业贸易与
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  importance of property, the aim of the city,
  财产的重要性 然而 他告诉我们
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  he tells us, is not wealth, is not the production of wealth.
  城市的目的并不是财富 不是创造财富
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  In that way it would be useful to make a contrast between Aristole
  在这方面 将亚里士多德与
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  and someone like Adam Smith,the great author of
  <国富论>的作者亚当·史密斯比较