来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第13集 第13集》

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  He characterizes this new
  他并没有用"民主"这个词
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  Cleisthenic regime not by the word democracy,
  来描绘这个新式的克利斯提尼式政权
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  which is apparently not really been coined yet,
  显然当时还没有造出这个词
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  but rather as what characterizes it,
  但其特点就是
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  is that all citizens are free,
  所有的公民都是自由的
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  equally able to address the populous in the assembly,
  能平等地在集会上各抒己见
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  and thereby to take an active role in their own government.
  从而在他们自己的政府中占一席之地
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  So he's really praising autonomy, self government,
  因此他盛赞自治 自治政府
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  not merely freedom from an alien people,
  不仅仅只是从异族手中得到的自由
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  but freedom within the city
  而是城中所有人都能
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  for all the people to govern themselves.
  自治的自由
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  He thinks that's one of the reasons
  他认为这就是