"Not if we won't listen," Polemarchus says.

"如果我们不听就不能" 普雷马科斯说道
Instead, they reach a compromise.

反而他们达成了协议
But Socrates and Glaucon come with Polemarchus and the others

但苏格拉底和格劳孔与普雷马科斯和其他人一起
to the home of Polemarchus' father, where dinner will be provided

去普雷马科斯的父亲的家里那里已经给他们
for them, and later, a return to the festival where there

准备好了晚餐稍后他们会回到举办庆典的地方
will be a horseback race. "It seems," Glaucon says,

那里有场骑马比赛 "看起来" 格劳孔说
"we must stay."

"我们必须留下了"
And Socrates concurs.

苏格拉底同意了
Why does the book begin with this, let's say, opening gambit?

为什么这本书以这个故事作为开场白
Is it simply a ruse to get the reader's attention in some sense

它在某种意义上是否仅仅是为了吸引读者注意的策略
or to rope you in with some promise of what's to follow?

还是用这些需要遵循的允诺来吸引你
Already from the very opening lines we see in this a clue to the theme

从开头的这几行我们已经看到了将要追随的