Rather he maintains as he puts it near the end of the defense speech that the examined life is alone worth living.

相反地，他维持辩护,快终结时的论点,受检视的人生孤独但有活着的价值。

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This is an argument that we've examined before.

我们以前检视过这个争论。

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He tells his fellows citizens, right, that their lives are not worth living, only the examined life is worth living and you are not living examined lives therefore your life cannot possibly have any value to it.

他告诉邦民们，说他们的生命不值得活，仅有经过反省的人生才值得,因为你未过着经反省的人生,所以你的生命,不可能会有任何价值。

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But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

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