Most of us like most of you earlier, find ourselves instinctively taking the side of Socrates against the city of Athens.

我们大部份，就像稍前的调查,自觉本能地选择支持,苏格拉底对抗雅典城；

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The charges against him were: corrupting the young and disbelieving in the Gods that the city believes in.

罪名是：,腐化青少年与,亵渎神明，雅典城所信奉的神明。

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There is a wonderful archaeological discovery of a boundary stone near Athens on which it is written on one side, this is Athens, it is not Megara.

在雅典城附近,考古人员令人惊奇地发现了界碑,界碑的一面刻着,"这里是雅典,不是麦加拉"

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Those who might defend the city of Athens against Socrates, those who believe in the value of civic piety are very few among us.

捍卫雅典城,对付苏格拉底，相信公民敬神价值的人,仅占少数。

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And again even today the expression " "Athenian democracy" connotes an ideal of the most complete form of democratic government that has ever existed.

它是座民主之城，时至今日,“雅典式的民主,仍意味着有史以来,最理想的完整民主政府型态。

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It is the harbor of Athens.

它是雅典的港口城。

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Not only does the Apology force Socrates to defend himself before the city of Athens but Socrates puts the city of Athens on trial and makes it defend itself before the high court of philosophy.

苏格拉底自辩篇》不仅迫使苏格拉底,在雅典城前自辩,他也迫使雅典全城受审,而且让它自辩于,哲学的最高法院面前。

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