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
A citizen is one who takes sharing in decision and office,

一个公民就是那个能享有决定权和官职竞争权
who participates in deliberation and decision-making.

那个参与决策并能做出决策的人
A citizen is one therefore who not only enjoys the protection of the law

因此公民不能仅享受律法提供的保护
is not merely you might say a passive beneficiary of

不能仅做城邦和律法
the protection of society and its laws,

的被动受惠者
but is one who takes a share in shaping the laws

而是那个能参与修订律法
and who participates in political rule and deliberation.

能参与政治规则和决策的人
Aristotle even notes, you probably observe, that his

亚里士多德这么写过你们可能发现了
definition of the citizen, he says, is most appropriate to

他所说的公民定义更适用于
citizens of democracy, where in his famous formulation

民主公民在他著名的分配下