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But news is not just a product: the press is the fourth estate, a pillar of the polity.
然而，新闻却不是一件产品，新闻产业作为一个政体的支柱，乃社会的第四权。
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Every polity of which we know is based upon a distinction between the rulers and the ruled.
每一个我们所知的政体,都是根据,统治者与被统治者的区分而定。
Their understanding of the provisional nature of experimental findings led them naturally to form a social system wherein doubt and disputation were the centerpieces of a functional polity.
他们对实验性的发现的暂时性的理解，自然而然地使他们建立一种社会体系，在这种体系中，质疑和争论是一个有效政体的题中之意。

Every polity seeks its own advantage against others, making relations between states a condition of unremitting war of all against all.
每一个政体都在追寻自身的利益,而非他者，国家间的联盟,是一种全面战争的条件，持续性的永恒对抗。
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The polity is the regime that represents for Aristotle a mixture of the principles of oligarchy and democracy.
政体对亚里士多德而言,即是代表,寡头与民主原则混合的政权。
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It would seem that far from utopia, the Republic represents a radical dystopia, a satire, in some sense, of the best polity.
这让《理想国》看起来远不像是乌托邦，反像是极端的反乌托邦，从某些层面看来像是在讽刺所谓最佳政体。
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Excerpt: Gladstone thought that Irish violence and English reaction to it was corrupting the whole polity.
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A polity is an organized society, such as a nation, city, or church, together with its government and administration.