President Obama made the announcement at the White House after first informing the leaders of Poland and the Czech Republic.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

And, again, that seems to point back to Thrasymachus' point of view in the first book of the Republic.

这又把我们带回到,第一本书《理想国》中,特拉西马库斯的观点上。

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The first and most obvious thing to say about the Republic is that it is a long book.

首先也是《理想国》,最明显的特征,就是其厚度。

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In a first reaction the EU's executive branch, the European Commission, said it was confident the Czech Republic could continue to "effectively preside over the European Union" despite the government losing a no-confidence vote in Prague Tuesday's vote of no confidence came after the opposition said the government came to late with a stimulus package of over three billion dollars to boost the ailing economy of this Eastern European nation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

First of all, it's not a coincidence that in both England and in the Dutch Republic you had, along with the city-states of Northern Italy, you had the largest percentage of middle-class population that you could find in Europe.

英国和荷兰共和国,以及北意大利的城邦,拥有全欧洲比例最大的中产阶级人群,这是有它的必然性的

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This is the part of the Republic most likely to call up our own first amendment instincts.

理想国》的这一部份,是最像唤起,我国宪法第一修正案的天性的章节。

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This is a point that is often lost in the Republic, that it is first of all a work on the reform of the soul.

这是在《理想国》中常被落掉的观点，即改革灵魂,为首要之事。

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I'm not sure if it's altogether true, but it's a good story, at least, about the famous German philosopher who said that on his first teaching of the Republic, he went through the whole book, ! taught the whole book in one seminar, one semester.

不确定是否都对，但是讲得很好，至少，讲者是著名德国哲学家,他在首堂讲授《理想国》的课中如此提问，然后教完整本巨著，整本巨著在一个学期内教完，一个学期。

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