Such a city would require, so Socrates tells us throughout the opening books,

就像苏格拉底在开篇中所贯彻的这样的一个城市将需要
the severe censorship of poetry and theology,

严格的诗歌和神学的审查制度
the abolition of private property and the family,

私人财产和家庭的废除
at least among the guardian class of the city,

至少在统治阶级内部
and the use of selected lies and myths,

还有选定的谎言和神话
what would today probably be called ideology or propaganda,

就像今天我们所说的意识形态和政治宣传
as tools of political rule.

作为政治统治的工具
It would seem that far from utopia,

这似乎离乌托邦很远
the Republic represents a radical dystopia, a satire, in some sense,

《理想国》展示了激进的反乌托邦在某种意义上
of the best polity.

是对最佳政体的一种讽刺
In fact, much of modern political science is directed against Plato's legacy.

事实上许多现代政治学观点是直接与柏拉图针锋相对的
The modern state, as we have come to understand it,

正如我们开始明白的