For the condition of their laws is bad almost past cure,

除了几个不可思议的机遇
except for some miraculous accident.

他们的法律情况已经无药可救了
So I was compelled to say, in praising true philosophy,

为了赞美真正的哲学所以我不得不说
that it was from it alone that was able to discern any justice.

从它本身是可以识别出公正的
And so I said that the nations of the world will never cease from trouble

所以我说世界上的国家都不会远离麻烦
until either the true breed of philosophers shall come to

直到真正的哲学家进入政治
political office or until that of the rulers shall,

而且统治者在神圣法下
by some divine law, take the pursuit of philosophy."

开始追求哲学
There you see in that wonderful and a kind of probing self-examination

这里你看到了他对他早期的动机和期望
of his early motives and expectations,

的美好的也是深入锐利的自省
you see the disillusionment of the older Plato looking on

你们看到了老些的柏拉图在旁观暴政政府的所作所为之后
what the Tyranny had done.

所产生的醒悟