who turned Athenian politics into a tyranny and, which he says,

他们将雅典政治转向暴政而且像他说的
makes the "democracy look like a golden age."

使得"民主看起来像黄金时代"
Let me continue in Plato's words. "I looked at this,

让我继续阅读柏拉图的文字 "我看着这一切
you see, and at the men who were in politics, at the laws and customs.

你是知道的看着这些陷身政治的人看着法律和习俗
And the more I looked and the older I grew, the more difficult

当我看的越多年龄越来越大
it seemed to me to administer political affairs justly.

对于我来说公正地管理政治事务似乎更困难了
For you cannot do so without friends and comrades you can trust.

因为如果没有你可以相信的朋友和同志你是不可能做到的
In such men it was not easy to find.

而很难找到这样的人们
For the city, you see,

你是知道的对于这座城市来说
no longer lived in the fashion and ways of our fathers.

不再是按照我们父辈的方式来生活
Eager as I had once been to go into politics, as I look at these things

当初我热切地加入政治中当我看到这些事
and saw everything taking any course at all with no direction

和我看见的所有事都毫无方向和管理可言