The philosopher-king, he tells us, may be an object of hope or wish but Plato realizes that this possibility is not really to be expected.

他告诉我们，哲学家国王也许是希望或愿望的目标,但柏拉图了解到,这种可能性不是真的值得期待。

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He's an extremely unpopular king.

他是一个不得人心的国王。

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Well, the most famous early on, King Croesus of Lydia, the richest man in the world,you've heard all about him, decides it would be a nice thing to conquer the Persian Empire, his neighbor to the east.

最著名的就是吕底亚的克洛伊索斯国王,之前已经讲过,他是世上最富有的人,他觉得征服他东方的邻居,波斯帝国,是一个不错的事

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And these people--this is kind of boring-- but these people were in government between 1830 and 1848, and King Louis-Philippe, who was chased from the throne in February of 1848, was seen as progressive, he was seen as the bourgeois monarch but he was perfectly noble.

这些人有点乏味,他们在1830年到1848年执政,国王是路易·菲利普,他在1848年二月被王室追捕,他被视为进取者,被视为资产阶级的君主,但他完全是个贵族

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