Rarely does the narrator comment on or explain a character's actions or thoughts or motives. There's only the barest minimum of dialogue.

作者极少评价或解释一个人物的行为,或思想或动机，文章中只有不能再直白的对话。

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It could be information-oriented, it could be a dialogue, it could be some kind of tools, a request function or dictionary or computing request.

可以是信息导向的，也可以是对话，或者是一种工具，一种对功能的需求，比如对字典，计算的需求。

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One of my favorite groups on campus is a group called Sustain Dialogue which invites students as well as faculties or staff members to come together over a meal.

在校园里，我最喜欢的社团之一,叫做“持续对话“，这个社团会把学生,教授，职工，等人聚集起来,一起吃顿饭。

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And again it makes sense if you think the dialogue is a kind of pedagogical tool to help you get better at philosophising.

而且如果你认为对话这本书,是一个教育学工具能帮你进行,哲学的研究推理，那就很有意义。

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Crito is named for a friend and disciple of Socrates who at the outset of the dialogue is sitting as a watchful guardian over his mentor.

克里托篇》的命名源自,苏格拉底的一名朋友及信徒,在对话之初,就诚心守护着他的这位良师益友。

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And you see this, going back to Socrates, there's a dialogue, the Gorgias, in which one of Socrates' friends, Callicles, tries to talk him out of philosophizing.

追溯到苏格拉底时代，就有这样一段对话，在《高尔吉亚篇》中，苏格拉底的一位朋友，卡里克利斯，试图说服苏格拉底放弃哲学思考。

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Of course, since the dialogue is indeed a dialogue, we don't always have the arguments laid out with a series of premises and conclusions.

由于仅仅是对话,我们不会看到一长串,有前提和结论的论证

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But it's not a whiff of that at least not in the dialogue as we got it, not a whiff of that, as far as I can see.

但是一点点这样的说法都没有,至少我认为在对话里，找不到只言片语。

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The surface of the Republic reveals that it is a dialogue.

理想国》的表面展现出,这是一场对话。

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We are invited to be not merely passive onlookers of this conversation, but active participants in that dialogue that takes place in this book over the course of a single evening.

我们不仅受邀,作为这场会谈的被动旁观者，更受邀参与进行中的对谈,时间就在那一晚,内容是本书。

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And so the heart of the dialogue consists of a series of arguments in which Socrates attempts to lay out his reasons for believing in the immortality of the soul.

所以这部对话录的核心,是由一系列的讨论组成的,其中苏格拉底试图摆出他的原因,让人相信灵魂是不朽的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place.

但本书的著作目的，不仅是,永恒的的哲学论述，更是戏剧性的对话，内含场景，人物,及一个确切时间与位置。

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And so, in addition to philosophical arguments for and against the existence and immortality of the soul, we end the dialogue with a quite moving death scene, one of the great death scenes, if we could call it that, of western civilization.

所以,支持和反对,灵魂的存在与不朽的论证,以一个感人至深的死亡场景告终,这简直就是西方文明史上,最伟大的死亡场景之一,如果我们可以这样说的话

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Some of you who are maybe familiar with Plato's later dialogue The Republic may recognize at least what seems to me, what we have here, is a foreshadowing of the myth of the cave, or the allegory of the cave, which Plato describes there as well.

你们中的那些,对柏拉图稍晚些的《理想国》对话录,熟悉的同学会知道,起码我认为,我们这里讲的是预示着洞穴的那个传说,或者洞穴的寓言,柏拉图在也描述过

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