But I want to deal now with a couple of interesting case studies about moral feelings from a psychological point of view.

现在我想讲几个有趣的案例分析,这些案例都是从心理学角度分析道德情感。

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Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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The moral is that reciprocity is friendship and so good, all to the good, but as I say there's a moment of suspense in the expectation at the point in the text when we expect a moral but we don't know what the moral is going to be.

寓意是，相互关爱就是友谊，它如此美好，对双方都有好处，但正如我所说，也有那么一刻，期望面临悬念,在当我们期待一个寓意,却不知道那个寓意将是什么的时候。

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In both of these cases, I take it, Socrates' point is that his own individual moral integrity stands as a kind of litmus test, you might say, for whether to engage or disengage from political life.

从这两场事件看来，苏格拉底的观点是,他自己个人的道德正直,经得起立见分晓的检验，我们可以看到无论参与,政治生活与否。

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