The first question has to do with our recent discussion of English language tests.

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We finished Black Boy last time, and one of the big questions coming out of my discussion of that autobiography is: how do you manage the question of context in reading a novel or an autobiography--in reading any text?

我们上次讲完了《黑孩子》,在关于那部自传的讨论中随之而来,的一个重要问题是：,当你在读小说、自传或者其他文本时,怎么处理上下文？

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The question that the philosophical discussion turns on is not, "Is there a soul?"

对话篇中哲学讨论所围绕的问题,并不是,灵魂是否存在

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And just to simplify the discussion, put aside the question of law, let's assume that you as the jury are charged with deciding whether what they did was morally permissible or not.

为了简化讨论过程，撇开法律问题不谈，假设你们作为陪审团，只需裁定,他们的所作所为，在道德上是否是允许的。

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That's the question that's driving the discussion in the Phaedo.

正是这个问题引发了斐多篇中的谈话

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Now, in the course of this discussion, Socrates and his disciples argue about not so much the existence of the soul, but the question really is the immortality of the soul.

在这段谈话中,苏格拉底和他的学生们,讨论的主要不是灵魂存在的问题,而是灵魂不朽的问题

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But in keeping with the focus of our discussion about the badness of death, I want to put aside the moral question ? and think about how good or bad for me ? is it that there's variability in death?

但是为了重点讨论,死亡的坏处，我要撇开道德问题不谈,转而考虑这种情况对我是好是坏,如果死亡有可变性的话？

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