And it feel like really this is just one of those like games the magicians play in the square where you are literally moving the cups around accomplishing nothing other than confusion - with the audience but-- which may actually be the case-- but, I argue that this is actually better.

看起来这就是一种,魔法师在广场中玩的游戏,在这个游戏中你只是逐个地移动杯子,除了让观众觉得困惑，其实什么事都没做,-但事实又是什么呢-,实际上我觉得不仅仅如此。

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It was some kind of a child's game, like tiddlywinks.

是当时一种儿童游戏，类似挑圆片游戏。

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Justice, in other words, for Thrasymachus is a kind of sucker's game; obeying the rules that really benefit others largely because we fear the consequences of injustice.

换言之，正义对，Thrasymachus，而言是一种恒输的游戏;,服从统治者,有利于他者,主要是我们害怕不公的后果。

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