The polis, as Aristotle as well as Plato clearly understand,

如亚里士多德和柏拉图所清楚了解的
is a small society, what could be called

城邦是个小型的社会可以被称为
today a closed society.

现代意义上的封闭性社会
A society that leads to our perfection that

社会导致人们追求自身的完美
leads us to complete and perfect our telos

从而使我们完成完美自己的目标
must be held together by bonds of trust, of friendship, of camaraderie.

一定需通过信任友谊友情来维持
A society based simply on the mutual calculation of interests

一个简单基于人们相互计算利益的社会
could not be a real political society for Aristotle.

在亚里士多德眼里不为真正的政治社会
We cannot trust all people, Aristotle seems to say.

亚里士多德想告诉我们不能信任所有人
Trust can only be extended to a fairly small circle of friends

信任只能扩展到一个相对小型的朋友圈
and fellow citizens.

以及公民同胞
Only a small city, small enough to be governed by relations of trust,

自由小型城市小得足以用信任来支配