The English Reformation, which begins with Henry VIII wanting to divorce and kill his various wives along the way, still had an awful lot to do with the resistance to the power of Rome and the power of the Catholic Church as an institution.

英国的宗教改革,自亨利八世开始,就是那个总爱离婚,且一辈子患有杀妻癖的君王,他仍然还要面对强大的罗马教廷,以及天主教会的反对与干涉

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Consider this passage in Book VIII of the Republic that I encourage you to read but is not on your assigned list.

细想出现在《理想国》第，VIII，册的以下这一段,我鼓励大家阅读,虽然它并未列在我指定的清单上。

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Socrates writes in Book VIII, 561c, "speaking of the democratic soul, the democratic man, he also lives along day by day gratifying the desire that occurs to him, " at one time, drinking and listening to the flute."

苏格拉底在第，VIII，册的，561c，处讲到，“说到民主灵魂，民主人士，他们也是每天,都满足于所发生的欲望，偶尔小酌及聆听笛音“

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There is obviously much in the American regime that Aristotle would have found admirable even though it does not conform to his idea of the best regime which is the subject of the last two books of the Politics Book VII and VIII.

明显地,美式政体有许多,是亚里士多德仍会觉得值得赞扬的,虽然那并未符合,他的最佳政体概念,而这正是《政治学》最后两册,第，VII，及，VIII，册,所集中探讨的主题。

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