To state the obvious, Socrates introduces this analogy to help the brothers better understand what justice is for an individual soul.

说明白些就是，苏格拉底导入这项比拟,以协助兄弟档更了解,正义对个人灵魂的重要性。

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Have you heard of the TV show, American Idol?

你有没有听说过《美国偶像》这档节目？

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But as it was a TV show and so sure enough, every single episode, some new dramatic danger would take place.

但在这档电视节目中,每一集,都会戏剧性地发生一个新的危机

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And certainly the brothers, we find out, are not slouches.

我们也了解到兄弟档，并非无能之人。

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You're an indignant angel, so you have the payoffs that are still there and you're playing against an evil git, which is the payoffs we covered up but we'll reproduce them.

你是愤怒天使,你的收益还是这些,你要和自私鬼博弈,他的收益被档上了,我再重新写一下

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Haze and the car shot backwards because the man had left it in reverse.

松开刹车，He，took，the，brake，off,那车忽然向后退,因为那男人之前给车挂了倒车档。

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The brothers desire to hear justice praised for itself alone, and that seems to be expressive of their own freedom from mercenary motives and incentives.

这对兄弟档,想听到正义自我礼赞，这似乎也显露出,他们不受金钱目的,及奖励约束的自由。

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The first, which one finds among manymodern-day commentators, many kind of neo-Aristotelians, we might call them, is to simply avert our eyes from the harsh, unappealing aspects of Aristotle's thought and proceed as if he never actually said or meant such things.

第一种是,你在今天随处可见的评论者，多种的新亚里士多德派学者，我们可以这么称呼他们，他们就只是转移我们的目光，不去看亚里士多德想法中刺眼，不讨喜的观点,单纯地以为,他好像从未说过或意指这档事。

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