"To take an opportunity to make sure that the indifference that the American people have had to the cause in Darfur ends, that we recognize we are all part of one human family and that it is very important that we stand up and that we make our voices be heard."

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It's a kind of dare demonstrating not just his indifference to the crowd but in fact his scorn for it.

叶芝这种胆量,不仅说明他对大众的漠然,其实还是对它的蔑视。

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In the first speech of the Apology, he defies the city to put him to death by expressing indifference to death and then in the Crito, he very much expresses that indifference to death by refusing to allow Crito to let him escape.

苏格拉底自辩篇》的第一场申辩中，他抗拒城邦处他死刑,理由是他根本漠视死亡,但之后在《克里托篇》,他表述漠视死亡的方式,变成拒绝让克里托助他逃亡。

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