Just before the death scene, there's a long myth, which I draw your attention to but I don't want to discuss in any kind of detail.

我想让你们注意,在这个死亡场景之前,有一个古老的传说,但我不想去讨论任何的细节

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Some of you who are maybe familiar with Plato's later dialogue The Republic may recognize at least what seems to me, what we have here, is a foreshadowing of the myth of the cave, or the allegory of the cave, which Plato describes there as well.

你们中的那些,对柏拉图稍晚些的《理想国》对话录,熟悉的同学会知道,起码我认为,我们这里讲的是预示着洞穴的那个传说,或者洞穴的寓言,柏拉图在也描述过

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Roughly speaking, a sixth of the class are going to end up with A's, a sixth are going to end up with A-, a sixth are going to end up with B+, a sixth are going to end up with B, a sixth are going to end up with B-, and the remaining sixth, if I added that up right, are going to end up with what I guess we're now calling the presidential grade, is that right?

总体来说,六分之一的人会得到A,六分之一的人会得到A-,六分之一的人会得到B+,六分之一的人会得到B,六分之一的人会得到B-,剩下的六分之一,如果我没算错,这些人将会得到,传说中的"超优"成绩

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And the myth has to do with these sort of pictures I was just describing where we don't actually live on the surface of the Earth of in the light, but rather live in certain hollows in the dark where we're mistaken about the nature of reality.

那个传说与我一直形容的,这个大局有关,我们并不真正生活在地表,生活在阳光里,而是生活在某种暗无天日的黑洞中,一个我们都误解了现实本质的地方

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