Every polity seeks its own advantage against others, making relations between states a condition of unremitting war of all against all.

每一个政体都在追寻自身的利益,而非他者，国家间的联盟,是一种全面战争的条件，持续性的永恒对抗。

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The polity is the regime that represents for Aristotle a mixture of the principles of oligarchy and democracy.

政体对亚里士多德而言,即是代表,寡头与民主原则混合的政权。

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It would seem that far from utopia, the Republic represents a radical dystopia, a satire, in some sense, of the best polity.

这让《理想国》看起来远不像是乌托邦，反像是极端的反乌托邦，从某些层面看来像是在讽刺所谓最佳政体。

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It is rather what he calls the master science that determines the rank and place of all the others within the polity.

决定政体内,所有其它研究的,高度与地位。

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Every polity of which we know is based upon a distinction between the rulers and the ruled.

每一个我们所知的政体,都是根据,统治者与被统治者的区分而定。

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The essential feature of this regime the polity Politea which in fact he gives the name politea the generic Greek word for regime.

这种政权的必备特色,事实上，他称之为,即希腊文中的政体的原字。

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By combining elements as it were of the few and the many polity is characterized by the dominance of the middle class the middle group.

透过结合一些元素,就像前人所为，结合少数人与多数人,政体的特征便转为是,由中间阶级，中间团体所统治。

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