来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论 第7集》

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  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
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  smaller and lesser forms of human association.
  以及较小形式的社会团体发展而来的
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  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
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  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
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  an association of villages that create a polis or a city.
  村坊组合就形成了城邦或城市
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  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
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  the most developed form of human association,
  社会团体最成熟的形式
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  in the way that one used to see in natural history museums,
  就像我们常在自然历史博物馆看到
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  these kind of biological charts of human development from
  人类从较小形式的生命发展到
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  these lesser forms of life all the way up to civilization in some way.
  文明的发展过程的生物图表一样
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  That is part of Aristotle's argument.
  这是亚里士多德论证的一部分
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  But there is a second sense for him and, in some ways,
  但这是第二含义 在某种程度上来说