the life of friendship, the life of again,

友谊的生活
competitive relations for positions of honor and office.

为了谋求荣誉和官位的竞争关系而存在
So we can say that a regime is in the first instance constituted by

所以我们可能这样说整体先是由
its citizen body.

公民体而组成的
Citizens are those who share a common way of life.

公民指那些享有共同生活方式的人
The citizen in an unqualified sense, Aristotle writes,

亚里士多德在书中
is defined by

所写的公民概念在广义的情况下
no other thing so much as sharing in decision and office.

不外乎是决定权的官职的共同享有
Or, as he puts it a little bit later, whoever is entitled to participate

稍晚他曾写过任何参与竞争官职的人
in an office involving deliberation or decision-making

牵涉审议和做出决策的人
is a citizen of the city.

就是这个城邦的公民
Listen to the words he uses there in describing a citizen.

注意听他在这里用于刻画公民的词汇