来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论 第4集 第4集》

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  We don't know precisely what Plato thought, but we are helped,
  我们无法明确地知道柏拉图在想什么 但至少
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  at least, by a kind of intellectual autobiography
  我们可以通过他写下的而且我们拥有的
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  that he wrote and that we still have,
  理智的书信而得到帮助
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  in what is conventionally referred to as The Seventh Letter.
  即一般所说的《第七封信》
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  Plato wrote a series of letters that we have.
  我们有柏拉图写下的一系列书信
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  People have argued over the authenticity of them,
  即使现在这些书信我认为已经被确认是他的了
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  although I think by now it is established that they are his.
  但是人们还是在争论它们的真实性
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  In the most famous of these letters, the lengthy seventh one,
  在这些书信中 最著名的是这冗长的第七封
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  he gives us, again, something of an autobiography and
  在信中 他又一次地写下了类似自传的东西
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  tells us a little bit about why he came to write this book.
  而且小小地告诉了我们为什么他写下了这本书
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  Isn't this amazing that 2,000-2,500 years ago,
  我们仍然拥有2000到2500年前写下这本书的主人的信
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  we still have the letters of the man who wrote this book?
  这不令人惊奇吗