Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.

美德对他而言,是一种具男子气概的自作主张，胆大，冷酷，自助，且还会算计使用残忍手段,来达致目标。

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Instead, increasingly, the Greeks focused on a reliance on reason.

而希腊人,越来越侧重于依赖推理

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It is the philosopher's reliance on his own reason that frees him from the dangerous authority of the state and safeguards the individual from complicity in the injustice and evils that seem to be a necessary part of political life.

哲学家信赖自己的理智,因为那使他远离,危险的国家权威,并守护个体,不与不义及邪恶合流,那似乎已成政治生活的必备部份。

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He said, of course we're worried on reliance, so much of our GDP and of our government revenues is oil-related.

他回答道，我们当然很担心这点，我们大部分的GDP和政府收入,都与石油产业相关。

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