Can a compromise be reached between the two?

两者之间可以达成妥协吗
Can the strength of numbers, as well as respect for reason and a

数目的力量可不可以与对理性和更佳辩论的尊敬
better argument be, in some sense, harmonized?

在某种意义上达到和谐
Can they be brought together?

它们可以一同带出吗
Is the just city, perhaps, that Socrates will later consider,

苏格拉底之后考虑到的公正之城
a combination of these two-- of both force and persuasion?

也许是武力和说服力这二者的结合
That will be something left to see.

这些都是留给我们所要想的
But I think you can see the big themes of the book already

但是我觉得你们已经可以从这部对话的开篇中
very present in the opening scene of the dialogue.

看出这部书的大主题了
The first book is really a kind of preamble to everything that follows.

第一卷实在是一种之后所有的东西所追随的序文
Okay?

是吧
Are you with me so far on this?

你们现在还跟得上我吧