When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature,

亚里士多德说到人天生是政治性动物时
he is doing more than simply asserting

不只是简单地用
just a truism or just some platitude.

陈词滥调或老生常谈来断定
In many ways he is advancing a philosophic postulate

他用许多方式提出具有广阔视野
of great scope and power, although the full development

和力量的哲学假设虽然论点的
of the thesis is only left deeply embedded.

充分发展却并没有深入
He doesn't fully develop it in this work or in saying.

他没有在他的著作和言论中深入发展论点
He isn't saying that man is political by nature.

他没用说来表达人类天生是政治性动物
Note that he is not saying, although he is sometimes

注意他没有说过虽然他有时
taken to be saying this, that he is not saying that there is

准备说他没有说我们
some kind of biologically implanted desire or impulse

拥有或共有某种生理上植入的欲望或冲动
that we have or share that leads us to engage in political life.

使我们参与政治生活