Today it is the hope of many people both here and abroad That we might even overcome might even transcend the basic structure of regime politics altogether and organize our world around global norms of justice and international law.

这是现今许多人的期望,不论是在美国还是国际上,我们或许甚至能克服,并超越政体政治的基本架构，彻底地,以全球典范来组织我们的世界,透过司法与国际法。

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Here's the line that Homer writes, they live without the Greek word is nomoi, which we would translate as laws, but before they become laws they are the customary norms of society, in other words, civilization.

荷马有如下描写,他们的的生活脱离于nomoi,我们可以将其翻译为法律,但是在这些成为法律之前,它们是社会约定俗成的标准,换言之,就是文明

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