Is it the kind of friendship that you feel for your best friend,

是那种你对你死党的友谊吗
or for your parents or siblings?

或是对你的父母或是对你的兄弟姐妹
What kind of a friendship are these bonds of affection,

怎样的友谊才能算是这种喜爱的纽带
that he says hold the city together and that make it a regime?

才是能使整个城邦团结在并构成政体的呢
Political friendships, he tells us, are not the kind of thing

他告诉我们政治性的友谊不是那种
that require us to forego our own individual identities in a way

要求我们易某种方式放弃个人身份
that one might find in passionate relations of love,

这种方式某个处于热恋中的人会遇到
right?

不是吗
Rather, they presuppose relations,

相反地它是一种前设关系
that is to say political relations,

也就是说这是一种政治性的关系
not between lovers or even best friends of some kind,

它并非处于爱人或是某种死党之间
but between civic partners

而是处于公民之间