When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.

当亚里士多德说,人类天生是政治动物，他的主张,不只是老生常谈,或是陈腔滥调。

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All he tells us is that we are the polis animal by nature and that to achieve our ends, it will be necessary to live in a polis.

他只说到,我们是天生的城邦动物,为了达成目标，必需要住在城邦之中。

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His claim that man is, by nature, the political animal.

他声称人类，天生是政治动物。

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Aristotle, who was increasingly being embraced by civic republicans in England of his time had been brought up, according to Hobbes, on Aristotle's teaching that man is by nature a political animal.

在霍布斯成长的年代里,亚里士多德受到英国共和派,日益增长的拥护，在霍布斯看来，亚里士多德教导人们,人类本性上是政治性的动物。

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So what follows, in one sense, that when Aristotle says that man is by nature a political animal and the city is by nature, the city can never be a universal state.

这响应了，亚里士多德所说,人类天生是政治动物,而城市是自然的演变，城市永远不能是一座万国之城。

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