no not canals or dock yards make the polis,

不是运河或码头让城邦成为城邦
but men able to use their opportunity.

而是这里的人们能使用他们的机会"
If you get into the fifth century, late in the fifth century,

如果你回到五世纪在五世纪末
Thucydides in his history has one of his generals

修昔底德在他的年代就曾经
speak to his men and say,"Men are the polis."

对人民做过一次演讲他说"人就是城邦"
So, we need to straighten out for ourselves what that means?

所以我们需要强调到底这是什么意思
Does that mean that the place where these people live

是不是意味着人民居住的地方不是城邦
is not the polis? Is it only men?Well, we'll come back to that.

而是只有人是城邦我们将很快回到这点
Let me read you something as we move to the fulles claim

在我们全面阐释城邦的角色之前
that will be made for the role of the polis.

我给你们读一些文字
Aristotle in his Politics says this:

亚里士多德在他的《政治学》中说
"As man is the best of the animals when perfected,

"完美的人是最好的动物