They consulted the oracle at Delphi.

他们在德尔斐神示所向神请示。

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Its Greek temple was directly over a rift in the Earth, where a stinking spring rose from Hades (the Oracle at Delphi was the same, and the best prophecies came after inhaling the gases).

这里的希腊神庙直接倾入到地缝里面，地缝中还散发这来自地狱的恶臭(这和希腊古都特尔菲的神谕是一样的，并且这是吸入这些气体之后才出现的最好的预言)。

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The lord whose oracle is in Delphi neither indicates clearly nor conceals but gives a sign.

德尔斐神谕的主管既不直言，也不隐瞒，而是出示象征。

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Second thing we've got to worry about is, what's a basic step? All right, if I bury a whole lot of computation inside of something, I can say, wow, this program, you know, runs in one step. Unfortunately, that one step calls the Oracle at Delphi and gets an answer back. Maybe not quite what you want.

我们需要担心的第二件事情就是，什么该作为一个基本的步骤呢？,如果我把一大堆的计算过程放到里面，我可以说，噢，这个程序你知道的，一步就完成了，不幸的是,这一步可能要靠预言家才能得到答案,这可能跟你想要的结果不太相同吧。

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He recalls the story don't you remember of a man named Charephon a friend of his who had gone to the Delphic Oracle who had gone to Oracle of Delphi and asked if there was anyone wiser than Socrates and was told there was not.

他回忆起那个故事，你们记得吗,关于一位名为Charephon的朋友,他前去请示阿波罗神谕,即德尔菲神谕,是否有人比苏格拉底聪明,得到的结果是没有。

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Undeniably, as a species we are extremely adaptable, but we must never forget that the Oracle of Delphi called Socrates the wisest of all men: He was the wisest of all men because he realized he was stupid.

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The Oracle at Delphi saw the true nature of Socrates, telling him that he was the wisest man in Athens not because he knew it all but because he was the only one who knew that he did not know.

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