okay, with models for how we might think about ours.

我们模型让我们考虑自己的想法
But this goes in a slightly different direction as well.

但这也朝着稍微不同的方向发展
Not only is this study of the regime, as we've seen, as I've just

这不仅仅是政治研究如我们已见
tried to indicate, rooted in, in many ways,

我也试图点出其根源在许多方面
the practical experience of the thinkers we'll be looking at;

我们将研究思想家的实践经验
but the study of regime politics either implicitly or explicitly

但也含蓄或露骨地提出
raises a question that goes beyond the boundary of any given society.

超越任何社会界限的问题政体
A regime, as I've said, constitutes a people's way of life,

如前所述包含了人们的生活方式
what they believe makes their life worth living,

让他们相信生命值得继续
or to put it again slightly differently,

或是再作修润
what a people stand for.

即代表人民的主张
Although we are most familiar with the character of a modern democratic

虽然我们最熟悉现代民主的特性