We can't help understanding. We always already understand, which has nothing to do again with whether or not we're right or wrong.

我们控制不住地去理解，我们总是已经理解了，这与对错无关。

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Now it's not until the fourth stanza of the prelude that we can fully understand the magnitude of the strange anxieties here.

直到序曲的第四段,我们才能完全明白这种奇怪焦虑的严重性。

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We can often better understand the dialogues by seeing Socrates as putting forward certain positions that he does not think are altogether adequate.

通过了解那些由苏格拉底提出,但他自己也觉得不充分的观点,我们可以更好地理解这些对话作品

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If you get asked about these readings, as you will on the exams, we're not going to be picky, and we're not expecting you to remember details, and not expecting you to understand concepts that you can't just grasp from the readings themselves.

如果到考试的时候,碰到这方面的问题,放心,我们不会太苛刻的,我们不指望你们记住具体的细节,也没想强迫你们去理解,仅从材料本身无法获得的思想

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