Now I suppose it's my reluctance to get into the intricacies of questions having to do with applied theory that makes me prefer to keep it simple.

我不愿意在,应用理论上纠结,因此想把它简单化。

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Aristotle's extreme reluctance, his hesitance to speak to the issues of his time, are perhaps the result of his foreignness to Athens.

亚里士多德极为冷淡，他对时局演变持保留态度的主因，可能是因为,自己对雅典的陌生感。

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Here is where Aristotle's analysis gets in some ways maddeningly tricky because in many ways of his general reluctance to condemn any regime out of hand.

这就是亚里士多德的分析在某些方面,令人抓狂却微妙的地方，因为,在很多方面，他显然不愿,立即谴责任何政体。

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At the same time, you might think his reticence, his reluctance to speak in his own voice may have also been a response to the fate of Socrates and politically endangered situation of philosophy.

同时，你也可以将他的缄默，与不发言的冷淡,可能也是,对苏格拉底的遭遇,及哲学在政治上危险处境的响应。

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