and very likely they have friends

而他们的朋友
who are also going to be unhappy.

也很有可能不高兴
So, you have a situation

所以你将看到
which is by now means calm and settled,

一个暂时安定而平稳的局面
but it might have settled down as people,

而之所以能产生这种局面
as they usually do when things are unavoidable, when there is no real option.

也只是由于人们无法避免且无路可选
Nobody's making a different case;

无人可以幸免
they would have just gotten used to things, I suppose.

我想他们只能渐渐趋于现状
But now

但是现在
Cleisthenes decides to do things different.

克利斯提尼决定做些不同的事情
He does not accept his defeat

他不接受他的失败
as he would have had to do in the old days,

要是在过去在贵族斗争中失败