The power to know is our ability to recognize, by sight, members of the same polis or city.

求知的能力,是我们透过双眼辨别，同一城邦或城市成员的能力。

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In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

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Many of the jurors would have known Socrates or certainly would have heard of him and he says would have had already an unfavorable opinion formed about him by this earlier generation of accusers.

多数的陪审团成员早就都认识苏格拉底,或至少听过这号人物,他自道，他们早就已经,有不利于他的主张,来自于那些前代的指控者。

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