Yeah, this is not a bad time for me to remind you that in one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates says the Greeks sit like frogs around a pond and that pond is the Aegean Sea.

下面引用一下,柏拉图记录的一段对话,苏格拉底说希腊地形,就像一群青蛙围着一个池塘,而那池塘就是爱琴海

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And as they were past they see that a small child has fallen into the pond and is in danger drowning.

这时，你看到,一个小孩掉进了池塘,就要溺水，情况危急。

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The moon says to him:] 'Oh, I've been scanning pond and hole And waterway hereabout For the body of one with a sunken soul Who has put his life-light out.

月亮对他说],哦，我一直在审视着池塘和地洞,还有在附近的排水沟,因为一个人的灵魂已沦陷,熄灭了他的生命之光。

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Because the pond is deep enough for an adult to wade into but too deep for a child to stand.

这个池塘不深，一个成年人足以趟过,然而小孩子却无法站立。

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Right, OK. So what I do to open the book is to ask the reader to image that they walking past a shallow pond, maybe somewhere in the park or or university campus.

好的，我在这本书的开篇,请读者想象这样一个画面，你走过,一个浅浅的池塘，可能是公园里,或是大学校园里。

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