U.S.officials are concerned such a prolonged political process will create an opening for al-Qaida to try to foment ethnic strife, just as tens of thousands of U.S.troops are scheduled to be leaving Iraq.

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And just from this little section of the poem, you can see that the theme of a new kind of education and only that can remedy nature's defects, as Machiavelli calls them. It is this lack of strife, this long lack of strife, that makes people weak.

仅从这首诗的这一小部分中，你能看到一种提倡新型教育的主题,而且只有那样才能弥补本性的缺陷，如马基雅维利所称，正是由于缺少争斗，这种长时期的冲突匮乏，才使得人们变得软弱。

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Well, the polis straightens out crooked judgments, "gentles the swollen ambitions and puts an end to acts of divisional strife.

城邦平反了,歪曲不公的裁决,驯服了膨胀贪婪的野心,终结了分裂和冲突

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Plato's famous answer to this is that this city, any city will never be free of conflict, will never be free of factional strife until, in his famous formula, kings become philosophers and philosophers become kings.

柏拉图最著名的回答是,这座城，或任何一座,都将免不了冲突，或是派系斗争，直到施行其著名的方案，国王成为哲学家,哲学家亦成王。

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