So maybe what we have here is another polemic,another adaptation of familiar stories and motifs to express something new.

所以，也许这又是另一场辩论,又是对我们所熟悉故事的颠覆。

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Socrates makes in other words continual questioning and not the telling of stories and the recitation of verses the essence of this new political education.

苏格拉底，相对地,不断地提问，而不说故事或是朗诵韵文,这就是这种,新式政治教育的精华。

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And so the stories couldn't have been simple inventions, and that began a new phase in the story. And, again, to repeat what I said last time, there were certain stunning physical resemblances between what Homer said and what we could see.

所以,神话传说并不只是人们的空想,这样事情就有所不同了,同时,我重复下我上次所说的,《荷马史诗》所描述的世界,在当今确有令人吃惊的实物证据

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