来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论 第6集 第6集》

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  But it is also connected to our desires for domination
  但它也和我们的支配欲有关
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  and the desire to exercise tyranny over others.
  和我们想主宰他人的欲望有关
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  Thumos has a kind of dual component to it.
  Thumos有双重含义
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  It can lead us to a sense of kind of righteous indignation and anger
  它引导我们产生某种义愤
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  at the sight of injustice,
  和见不义之事而残生的愤懑
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  but it can also lead us in a rather contradictory way
  但它也能引领我们进入另一端
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  to desire to dominate and tyrannize over others.
  希望统治和主宰别人
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  This is the quality that Socrates regards as being
  这就是苏格拉底认为作为
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  possessed by every great political leader and statesman,
  一名伟大的政治领些和政治家具备的品质
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  but it is also clearly a quality possessed by every tyrant.
  但它显然也是每位暴君具备的品质
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  And the question posed by the Republic,
  《理想国》抛出的问题呈现出
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  in many ways, the question around which the book as a whole gravitates,
  很多方面 整本书重点围绕讨论