He says that people who put forward views like this and at any rate harmony can certainly be destroyed.

他说提出有人,提出类似这种观点,和声当然可以毁灭。

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Even if we were to say you know what, the mind is not much like harmony at all.

即使我们说，知道么，精神和和声一点也不一样。

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Socrates instead spends some time worrying about the question: is the soul really like harmony or not?

取而代之的是花时间,研究一个问题：,即灵魂是不是真的像和声一样？

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But first let's worry about the point that I was emphasizing earlier, namely, even if the soul is not very much like harmony, so what?

但首先让我们探讨一下,我之前强调的那一点，那就是即使灵魂和和声大为不同，那又如何？

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He says this is a very nice example for us to think about because some people have suggested, Simmias says, that the mind is like harmony.

这是个很好的例子供我们思考,因为西米亚斯说,一些人推测,精神就像和声一样。

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If he can convience us that the soul is not like harmony of the body, maybe there will be some sort of problem for the physicalist.

因为如果他能说服我们,灵魂不像是身体的和声,那么就会给物理学家留下些问题了。

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If the mind is like the harmony of the body, then maybe you could destroy the mind, the soul by destroying the body on which the mind depends.

如果精神像是身体的和声，那也许你可以通过毁灭,精神依靠的肉体来毁灭,精神和灵魂。

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It's as though the mind is like harmony of the body.

好像精神,就是身体的和声一样。

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I think what's going on in the harmony, the suggestion that we should think the mind like harmony as though the harmony of the body, is an early attempt to state the physicalist view.

推断精神像是，我们肉体的和声,展现了，对物理学家的观点的早期尝试。

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If harmony really is invisible, and harmony really can be destroyed, that invisible things can be destroyed, even the soul is nothing like you know, that's not a good analogy for thinking of the physicalist position, have you? So what?

如果和声真的无形，而和声真的可以毁灭，那么无形的东西可以毁灭，即使灵魂不同于和声,如果从物理学家的观点来看,这不是个好的类比，那又如何？

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