I think it's to give us a dynamic sense of the family conversation going on between them, but it also addresses one of those obvious things.

我想这是要给我们一个有活力的家庭,对话存在于他们之间的感觉，但是它也表明了一个明显的事实。

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I love reading these particular stories, and just hearing the dialogue between them, and imagining it, because the two of them alternate in losing patience with the Israelites, and wishing to throw them over.

我喜欢读这些特别的故事，读他们之间的对话，想象那个场景，因为他们两个轮流对犹太人,失去耐心，想放弃他们。

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The Crito, on the other hand, is a conversation between Socrates and a single individual, only one person.

另一方面来说，《克里托篇》则是一场,介于苏格拉底与单一个体之间的对话，就只有一人。

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