But I think you can see the big themes of the book already very present in the opening scene of the dialogue.

但我想你们已可以看出本书的大主题,在对话一开始,即非常明显地点出。

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We are invited to be not merely passive onlookers of this conversation, but active participants in that dialogue that takes place in this book over the course of a single evening.

我们不仅受邀,作为这场会谈的被动旁观者，更受邀参与进行中的对谈,时间就在那一晚,内容是本书。

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Adeimantus The two brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, whose exchange with Socrates occupies, for the most part, the rest of the dialogue from Book Two onward, the two brothers who, incidentally, are the brothers of Plato.

兄弟檔，Glaucon，和，和苏格拉底的对谈，占据了大部份的对话，从第二部起所有对话，这对兄弟，碰巧是柏拉图的兄弟。

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