The particular dialogue that we're going to reading,the Phaedo, is set at the death scene of Socrates.

我们要学习的这篇对话,斐多篇,就将场景设定在苏格拉底临死前的一幕

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The dialogue ends, of course, with the death scene-- Socrates has been condemned to death by the Athenians, and it ends with his drinking the hemlock, not distressed but rather sort of joyful.

对话在死亡场景中结束,此时苏格拉底已经被雅典人宣判死刑,对话在他喝毒药的时候结束,他并不哀伤,反而有点快乐

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And so, in addition to philosophical arguments for and against the existence and immortality of the soul, we end the dialogue with a quite moving death scene, one of the great death scenes, if we could call it that, of western civilization.

所以,支持和反对,灵魂的存在与不朽的论证,以一个感人至深的死亡场景告终,这简直就是西方文明史上,最伟大的死亡场景之一,如果我们可以这样说的话

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We read earlier this semester Plato's Phaedo, which describes the death scene of Socrates.

早前我们读过柏拉图的Phaedo篇，篇中描述了苏格拉底的死亡场景。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选