外國(guó)人最想和你聊的名人話題：亞里士多德

     In his Poetics, Aristotle first mentioned the concept of "finding".
     亞里士多德在《詩(shī)學(xué)》中提出了"發(fā)現(xiàn)"的概念。
     Aristotle said that the essence of life is the pursuit of happiness.
     亞里士多德說(shuō)，生命的本質(zhì)在于追求快樂(lè)。
     Aristotle noted that when he released most objects, they would drop downward.
     亞里士多德注意到，松開(kāi)多數(shù)物體時(shí)，它們就會(huì)往下掉。
     Aristotle's static world view was not challenged until the sixteenth century.
     亞里士多德的靜態(tài)世界觀在十六世紀(jì)以前一直沒(méi)有受到懷疑。
     Aristotle's knowledge on logic can be acquired through learning, has guidelines to follow.
     亞里士多德的邏輯學(xué)問(wèn)是可以學(xué)習(xí)的，是有規(guī)律可以遵循的。
     Since he could detect no star's shift, Aristotle concluded that the earth must be stationary.
     亞里士多德因?yàn)闆](méi)有測(cè)出恒星的位移，于是就斷定地球一定是靜止不動(dòng)的。
     What does Aristotle means when he says that the essence of literary making is the making of plots?
     當(dāng)亞里士多德說(shuō)，文學(xué)構(gòu)造的本質(zhì)是對(duì)情節(jié)的構(gòu)造，他要表達(dá)什么意思？
     They believed consciousness resided in the heart, a view shared by Aristotle and a legacy of medieval thinkers.
     他們認(rèn)為知覺(jué)是存在于心臟里的，亞里士多德和中世紀(jì)的思想家也持相同的觀點(diǎn)。
     Aristotle, the greatest of the ancient Greek writers, had written a work containing all the knowledge of his time.
     亞里士多德是最偉大的古希臘作家，曾寫(xiě)過(guò)一部囊括同時(shí)代所有知識(shí)的著作。
     The Master had quoted Aristotle: "In the quest of truth, it would seem better and indeed necessary to give up what is dearest to us".
     大師引用亞里士多德的話："追求真理時(shí)放棄對(duì)自己最珍貴的東西似乎更好些，的確是必須的。"
     Aristotle says virtue is that way too.
     亞里士多德說(shuō)美德也是那種方式。
     And so, Aristotle writes in Book One of the Politics.
     而且，亞里士多德在《政治學(xué)》第一卷中寫(xiě)到。
     There lived in Greece a great thinker named Aristotle.
     希臘有一個(gè)名叫亞里士多德的偉大思想家。
     What, in Aristotle's view, is wrong with these proposals?
     在亞里士多德的觀點(diǎn)中，這些建議有何錯(cuò)誤？
     This sentence is said by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle.
     這句話是古希臘哲學(xué)家亞里士多德說(shuō)的。
     Aristotle agrees that virtuous people do not simply emerge as such. They are taught by examples, by stories, and by exemplary models.
     亞里士多德同意品德好的人并不是生來(lái)如此，他們是被事例、故事和可資借鑒的模范人物所教化的。
     Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more rapidly towards the earth than small ones, because Aristotle said so.
     在伽利略之前，學(xué)者們認(rèn)為大的物體比小的物體下落得更快，因?yàn)閬喞锸慷嗟略?jīng)這么說(shuō)過(guò)。
     The incidents of the plot, declared Aristotle, must be so closely connected that to remove or change the order of any one of them will dislocate the whole.
     亞里士多德宣稱，情節(jié)中的所有事件都必須緊密關(guān)聯(lián)，以至于只要其中一個(gè)事件的位置或順序稍作變動(dòng)便會(huì)擾亂整個(gè)劇情。
     Aristotle's position became dangerous as a result of his Macedonian links.
     因與馬其頓間的關(guān)系，亞里士多德處境十分危急。
     Aristotle fled from Athens to Chalcis in the Island of Euboea where he died in 322 BC.
     亞里士多德只好逃離雅典，來(lái)到埃維亞島的查爾基斯，一直生活至公元前322年去世。
     Aristotle's scientific writings are now interesting largely from a historical point of view, but he did achieve a balance of the empirical and the deductive which we get in modern science.
     人們對(duì)亞里士多德的科學(xué)著作感興趣，主要是出于其歷史意義，但他的確取得了我們現(xiàn)代科學(xué)中所得到的經(jīng)驗(yàn)和推理之間的平衡。
     It is an old concept originated from Aristotle.
     這是一個(gè)來(lái)自亞里士多德的古老概念。
     The field was held by the modified two-sphere universe which was taken over by Aristotle and integrated into his complex synthesis of ideas covering cosmology, the natural world and philosophy.
     亞里士多德繼承了修改過(guò)的雙球面學(xué)說(shuō)并將其融合到他的涉及宇宙、自然界和哲學(xué)的復(fù)雜的綜合理論中。
     It could not have been done without rejecting some of Aristotle's assumptions.
     如果不是對(duì)于亞里士多德的某些假定的拒斥，這一切就無(wú)法做到。