And these, of course,

显然这些人
turn out to be the winners of the Jeopardy contest playoffs.

最终成为了这场危险权利竞争的胜利者
But it doesn't matter. There's never one king.

但这无关紧要重要的是没有君主专制
It's always a group of people that is the best government,

优秀的政府都是由一群人组成的
and they will be the best.

这些人都是的精英
In this case defined chiefly by their intelligence,

这主要取决于他们的才能
but other things too. Well, anyway in this case,

不过也包含其他方面不管怎样
in Greek political thinking

那个时候在希腊人的政治思维中
the aristocracy of birth is the default position.

贵族统治就是初始的状态
Anybody who wants to argue for a different kind of political arrangement

任何人如果想要支持其他不同的政治构成
will have to make the case uphill against all tradition.

必须要冲破一切传统阻力
I hope that you'll have that in the back of your head

我希望当我们讲到雅典神话