The Republic asks us, what would a city be like if it were ruled by Socrates or someone like him?

理想国》要我们考虑，城邦的面貌,如果它是由苏格拉底或像他的人所统治？

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And so the heart of the dialogue consists of a series of arguments in which Socrates attempts to lay out his reasons for believing in the immortality of the soul.

所以这部对话录的核心,是由一系列的讨论组成的,其中苏格拉底试图摆出他的原因,让人相信灵魂是不朽的

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What would a community ? of Socratic citizens look like, each one picking and choosing, you might say, the laws or the rules to obey or to follow or not to follow.

苏格拉底式的公民社群,会是什么样子，每个人都自己挑选，想服从,遵守及不遵守的法律。

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I'd just like to do a piece of survey research, how many of you, just a show of hands is all I need; how many of you believe ? Socrates is innocent and should be acquitted?

我们来做一下意见调查，有多少人认为，只要举手就可以了;,有多少人认为,苏格拉底是无辜且应无罪开释？

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I assume what Socrates means by that is though each individual will, each of us, embody all three features of soul, appetite, spirit, and reason, only one of these will be the dominate trait in each of us.

我假定苏格拉底是指,虽然每个个体，我们每一个人，都将体现灵魂,欲望，意志与理性的全部三种特质，而仅有其中一项,会主宰我们每一个人。

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So for our purposes, we don't have to ask ourselves when Socrates in the dialogue says something, is this a view that the dead man Socrates actually would have held or is this simply a view that the dead man Plato put in the mouth of the character Socrates?

所以,出于这门课程的目的,我们无需深究,苏格拉底在对话中的某个观点,到底是属于那个真实的受死之人苏格拉底的,还是属于已故之人柏拉图,通过作品中苏格拉底这个角色所表述的

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No one is above suspicion. Socrates himself had been a close associate of a man named Alcibiades probably the most prominent Athenian in the generation after Pericles.

没有人是绝对清白的,苏格拉底自己的密友之一,就是Alcibiades，他或许是,贝里克利斯之后的年代里最著名的雅典人。

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