来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新约及其历史背景 第3集 第3集》

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  did not promote democracies.
  并没有推行民主制度
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  But they kept this idea that the demos -- that is,
  但是他们保留了demos的概念
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  the adult citizen males of a city -- were a political body.
  即城邦中的成年男性公民是一个政治团体
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  And that's when, if you had everybody come to
  如果能让所有人
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  the theater for a big debate about something,
  去剧院开辩论大会
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  you could still have people voting on certain things
  也就能让他们就某些城市决策投票
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  that the city might decide to do, although they couldn't
  虽然他们并不能
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  rule themselves completely by themselves.
  完全享有自治
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  Then you had a smaller council that might be 50 people.
  还有一个50人左右的小型委员会
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  It varied, the size, according to the city.
  依据城市大小 规模不同
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  The council was called the boule,
  这个委员会被叫做boule[议会]
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  which is also in your handout,
  你们讲义上也有注明