The particular dialogue that we're going to reading,the Phaedo, is set at the death scene of Socrates.

我们要学习的这篇对话,斐多篇,就将场景设定在苏格拉底临死前的一幕

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Remember the letter ? that Plato wrote near the end of his life, when he compares the democracy to a golden age, at least in comparison to what went after.

记得柏拉图,在临死前所写的书信吗，当他把民主与黄金时期相比时，至少是与那之后的时期相比时。

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Still his sufferings were so great that died without cured.

但是，即便如此，他个人承受了巨大的痛苦，临死也未能治愈。

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I can perhaps even picture the moment of my death.

我甚至能想象自己临死的那一刻。

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He's happy though.

他临死还是挺高兴的

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