In fact, we have, and I want to read to you in just a moment a lengthy transcript of Plato's own account of why he came to write the Republic.

实际上，我们握有，我马上就会与你们分享,柏拉图冗长的亲笔解说,为何他要撰写《理想国》

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There are always little details that they don't account for, and that's the loose thread that you can pull to make your own.) And so, what does he find when he goes in to this holy space?

那就是，有一些小细节并没有明确的含义，但我们能通过自己的理解去理顺探究）,他在那个神圣的地方发现了什么呢？

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