"That man" he says "is much more a political animal " than any kind of bee or herd animal is clear."

他说,“人类是政治动物的潜力,明显地远远超过任何种类的蜜蜂或群牧动物“

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I don't know, a very English, sort of stiff upper lip kind of man.

我不知道，一个英国式的，坚定沉稳的男人。

皇室的绯闻 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He is not a kind of socio-biologist of politics, although he sometimes appears this way when he says that man is a political animal.

他并不是一种政治学的社会生物学家，但他有时的确显得像,尤其是当他说到人类是政治动物时。

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In a sense it is an image of the English countryside at a moment in which it is being emptied out, its young men sent to France to die, a kind of no man's land already.

某种意义上它是英国乡村的写照,在一个被清空的时刻，年轻的男人被送到法国受死，已经是没有人的土地。

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When these tyrannies take place, they last for different periods of time, but when the tyrant is removed, what follows after that is, there is never again in that town a one-man rule of any kind.

当僭主统治步入历史舞台,它走过了很多历史时期,但当它寿终正寝之后,在那座城邦里再也没有出现过,任何形式的独裁者了

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You can go... Oh man, there's all kind of stuff around here,

你可以……噢，那里有各种东西，

旧金山的热点 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He is independent in a way that nobody who was not a king or an aristocrat in the past has ever been -- a new kind of man, the backbone of the polis as it emerges.

他是如此的独立以至于,前无古人后无来者,一个全新的人,它不断地发展并成为城邦制的脊梁

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Now, that's a very important point, because why in the world would you give a shield of the kind I am describing, for a man to defend himself, if you imagine him standing by himself anywhere, if you imagine him any distance from the rest of the guys fighting alongside of him.

这点非常关键,那就是到底为什么要将,这样一种盾牌,给士兵们使用,想象一下这个场景,这个士兵在战场的某个角落孤军奋战,与其它友军士兵相隔甚远

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Some notion of being above yourself and thinking yourself more than a man with the implication that you are approaching some kind of divinity by being more than a man, and acting accordingly,which usually requires that you use violence to achieve what you want.

某种超越自我的信念,认为自己不只是凡人,这就暗示了,你正接近某种神灵,为此,通常需要使用暴力,来达成所愿

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