This is the first instance in which Richard will do what he later describes Mencken doing, using words as weapons.

如同门肯后来所做的,语言第一次被理查当作武器。

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For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.

对于柏拉图，哲学的首要任务，是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。

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And the first thing you do is ask is it an instance of some problem that other people have already solved?

而且你以前从没碰过这个问题,你首先要做的一件事就是问问自己,这是不是一个别人已经解决了的问题？

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This might look a little cryptic at first, but it turns there is some very obvious patterns here, for instance. According to this chart, if you want to represent the letter A A in the so called ASCII system, what number do you actually use to do so?

起初，它看起来有点神秘，但你会发现它有一些明显的对应模式，这里就有例子，根据图表，在所谓的ASCII系统中,你想表示字母，你该用哪些数字呢？

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self First argument by convention is always self, because it has to point to the instance, and then I pass, in this case, another couple of arguments in.

第一个参数往往是，因为它必须指向实例，然后我传入了，在这个例子中。

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