For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.

对于柏拉图，哲学的首要任务，是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。

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Eventually what happens is that glucose transport molecules which are expressed and stored inside the cell get shuttled up to the surface, so the cells permeability to glucose goes up and more glucose can come in.

最终的结果是那些已经表达,并储存于细胞中的能够运输糖的载体分子,穿梭到细胞表面,这样细胞对糖的透过性提高,更多糖分子进入到细胞内部

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He controls no real estate. He's been banished, yet he is clearly attempting to conquer, comparing himself to Columbus, to conquer in large part through the transformation of our understanding of good and evil, of virtue and vice.

没有不动产，且已被流放，但他明显地试图克服，并将自己和哥伦布相比，他想要克服大部份的人,透过转变,我们对善恶,美德与邪恶的了解。

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A state of war can include, in other words, " what we might call a "cold war," two hostile sides looking at each other across a barrier of some type, not clear or not certain what the other will do.

换句话说，战争状态包括，我们所说的“冷战“,敌对双方透过某种屏障,对对方虎视眈眈，却不知道对方会干什么。

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And on the other hand," he says, "if I say that this even happens to be a very great good for a human being that is to make speeches every day about virtue and that the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being, " you will still less be persuaded by me."

但另一方面“他继续说，“如果我说这碰巧,也对人类贡献极大,透过每天演说美德,及没有反省的生命,不值得活，你们仍然不太可能会被我说服“

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