Socrates seems, or could be seen, to be speaking not just ironically but provocatively in describing himself as a gift of the god.

苏格拉底的言论似乎，或可说看起来不只讽刺,而且挑衅意味十足地将自己,形容成是上帝的恩典。

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So, the way Baron puts it, provocatively, is to be a man is to suffer from a very mild form of autism .

所以,按照伯龙挑衅的说法,男人天生就患有轻微的孤独症

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That means that for humans it can be a difficult and hostile place.

也就是说，它对于人类是个艰难且充满挑衅的地方。

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Nevertheless, Trotsky's book is a provocation.

但是托洛斯基的书是一个挑衅。

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The Athenians refuse to tolerate Socrates because they know he is not harmless, that he poses a challenge, a fundamental challenge to their way of life and all that they hold to be noble and worthwhile.

雅典人拒绝容忍苏格拉底,因为他们明白他并非无害，他公然挑衅，社会本质的生活方式,及他们视为崇高及值得的观念。

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He has to modify his plans for the first couple, by barring access to the tree of life. That was not something presumably he planned to do This is in response to, perhaps, their unforeseen disobedience certainly the way the story unfolds that's how it seems to us.

他更改了他的原计划，除了不能接近生命树,这些并不是他本打算做的事情,这也许是对意外挑衅的回应,故事是对后人的警告。

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