来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲 第4集 第4集》

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  there's something about us that needs explaining.
  存在一些有关我们自身的亟待解释的事物
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  We can't explain it in terms of, in purely physical terms.
  但单从物理的角度 我们无法对其进行解释
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  And so we need to appeal to,
  所以我们需要借助他法
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  we need to posit, the existence of, a soul.
  我们需要假定灵魂存在
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  Now, I'll come back to that sort of argument in just a minute,
  我们待会儿再回到这个论题上
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  but let me bracket that for a moment
  现在我们暂且先把它放在一边
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  and say something about Plato.
  开始学习柏拉图
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  Starting next week,
  从下周开始
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  we're going to be looking at Plato's dialogue, the Phaedo.
  我们要学习柏拉图的对话 斐多篇
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  And so although I'll be saying a great deal
  尽管在讲到斐多篇时
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  about the Phaedo once we turn to it,
  我会向你们详尽介绍其中的内容
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  I want to just take a minute or two
  但现在 我还是想先花一两分钟的时间