The power to know is our ability to recognize, by sight, members of the same polis or city.

求知的能力,是我们透过双眼辨别，同一城邦或城市成员的能力。

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The polis is not merely a city state in the same way as,let us say, the Mesopotamian city states of the third millennium B.C. Were.

那就是城邦不仅仅是一座城市,并不是像,我们说的公元前三千年的,美索不达米亚的城市

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He rejects the idea that the city is defined simply by a group of people who inhabit a common territory the same space as it were.

他拒绝将城市简单定义为,一群人住在同一领土上的概念,即同一空间。

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