In what sense are we political animals by nature?

如何理解我们天生是政治性动物
Aristotle appears to give two different accounts

亚里士多德在书的首页给了我们
in the opening pages of the book that you might pay attention to.

两种不同的解释你们要注意一下
In the literal opening, he gives what looks like

在文字的开始他似乎给我们
a kind of natural history of the polis.

介绍了城邦的自然历史
He seems there to be a kind of anthropologist writing a natural history.

他似乎像是人类学家在写作自然史
The polis is natural in the sense that it has grown out of

城邦很自然可以说是从较小的
smaller and lesser forms of human association.

以及较小形式的社会团体发展而来的
First comes the family, then an association of families in a tribe,

首先是家族然后由家族联盟组成部落
then a further association in a village, and then you might say

再组合而成村落最后你们可以说
an association of villages that create a polis or a city.

村坊组合就形成了城邦或城市
The polis is natural in the sense that it is an outgrowth,

城邦就以此意义来说是自然的产物