This is a scene of whether you as a writer compromise yourself in the face of authority that resists what you want to say.

场景是作者在面临权威坚持提出反对意见时,是否妥协你想要表达的内容。

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these are at least among the questions that Socrates or Plato, the author of the book, deliberately poses for us to consider.

就是这些问题,这些至少就是苏格拉底或柏拉图，本书作者，所特意提出让我们思考的问题。

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