To state the obvious, Socrates introduces this analogy to help the brothers better understand what justice is for an individual soul.

说明白些就是，苏格拉底导入这项比拟,以协助兄弟档更了解,正义对个人灵魂的重要性。

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We can say that there are certain things that are good above and beyond experiences-- the right kinds of accomplishments, the right kind of knowledge.

我们可以认为有某些事情,是美好的，它们非经验所能比拟-,比如合适的成就，合适的知识。

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And this idea that the city is essentially analogous to the soul, that the city is like the soul, is the central metaphor around which the entire Republic is constructed.

而这种,将城市视为实质上可与灵魂比拟的概念，城市也有灵魂的概念，即是环绕整部《理想国》,构建的核心隐喻。

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Part of what we're doing in Princeton everyday is running to the next thing, to the next thing, to the next thing, always remind us on the next thing, and here you take a moment and realize the incredible richness of this moment.

我们每天在普林斯顿,都要奔向下一件事，下一件事，下一件事，总是被提醒着有下一件事，此时，花一些时间,体会到此刻,无可比拟的丰富。

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Despite all of the--Mitterrand's plans for decentralization, and the creation of regional councils, basically France remains the most centralized state in Western Europe, and the role of Paris in French life does not have an equivalent in other European countries.

尽管密特朗计划在法国实施,去中央集权化并创立地方议会,法国基本上还是西欧,中央集权化程度最高的国家,巴黎在法国的地位是欧洲其它国家的城市,所不能比拟的

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On the one hand it's clearly good that humans rise above the animals and build cities and wear clothes and pursue the arts of civilization and develop bonds of love and duty and friendship the way that animals do not; these are the things that make humans like the gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

一方面，成为人类也未尝不是一件好事,人类优于动物，穿着衣服，用自己的双手建造城市,打造文明的生活方式，而爱和责任,把人类联结起来，这些是动物无法比拟的,在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，这些特质让人类具有神性。

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The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

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