And the answer--the short answer--is, Socrates, the character Socrates in the play, represents Plato, the author of the play's, philosophical views.

答案是,苏格拉底,即剧中苏格拉底的角色诠释了,戏剧作者自己的哲学观

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The very presence in a theatrical piece of a long and weighty philosophical debate like this one could easily be seen as having a pretty tedious effect.

很容易看出这样一个戏剧般长篇,而有分量的哲学争论,有着令人厌倦的作用。

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He's just writing a dramatic play about philosophy.

他只是在写一个关于哲学的戏剧

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As I said at the beginning, in the philosophical literature, this has become known as the problem of dirty hands so named after a famous play written by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

正如我一开始所说的，在哲学作品中,这已经作为脏手问题而闻名,自从法国哲学家萨特写下,一部非常有名的戏剧之后。

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The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place.

但本书的著作目的，不仅是,永恒的的哲学论述，更是戏剧性的对话，内含场景，人物,及一个确切时间与位置。

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