that the Spartan state had must be good ones,

斯巴达城邦的诸多特征优于其他
because they can do the most critical thing that a state can do,

因为他们能做一个城邦能做的最关键的事
win in competition with the other states.

即成为在与其他城邦的竞争中的胜者
So, he had in mind a very narrow oligarchy.

因此他想建立一个寡头统治集团
One scholar has suggested he actually had

一名学者曾认为他实际上
in mind to establish in Athens the closest facsimile he could

他试图在雅典尽可能地建立
of the Spartan Constitution;

斯巴达式的政体
it could never be exactly the same,

当然不可能一模一样
but he was trying to do something like that.

但他曾尽可能地使其一样
That could be true,

这可能确实是史实
but it was going to be narrow,

但这一统治集团人数并不多
a smallish number of people were going to control the city.

城邦的统治权仅会掌握在小部分人的手上