We know it's an illusion, but we get to live in it so comfortably with so little alteration of the nature of the illusion or of the way in which we negotiate the illusory world, that it becomes kind of womb-like and cozy.

我们知道那是幻觉，但是我们活在其中，如此舒适地,基本不去改变幻觉的本质,也不改变我们在这个幻境中生活的方式，它变得如子宫般安全舒适。

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It is this Socrates who is brought up on charges of corruption and impiety yet none of this quite answers the question of what is the nature of Socrates' crime.

这是被控腐化,与亵渎神明的苏格拉底,但这都未能完整地回答,苏格拉底所背罪名的本质究竟为何。

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Or perhaps, strictly speaking, what we should say is the only part that's essential to the person is the soul, though it's got a rather intimate connection to a particular body.

或者,严格地说来,我们可以表达为,灵魂是人最本质的部分,尽管它和肉体间保持着密切的联系

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And this is a little different from what happened ten or so years ago, but the so-called Y2K problem was essentially the result of programmers not really having the foresight to realize, "Maybe we shouldn't use so few bits or so few digits to represent a year because eventually this will be a problem."

这个跟10年前发生的事情有点不一样,那个所谓的“Y2K“问题,本质上的结果是,程序员没有真实地预见和认识到，“可能我们没必要用到这些位数或数字,来表示一年，但是最终这个将会,是个问题“

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In every regime one of these groups he says will be the dominant class will be the dominant body the ruling body as he says in that definition and that ruling body will in turn he says define the nature of the regime.

他说，在每一个政体之中,这些类组中的一类将会是统治阶级,支配本体，统治本体,如他所说，在那样的定义之下,统治本体将会相对地定义政体的本质。

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