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
Let's talk a little bit about the participants in this dialogue.

让我们谈谈这部对话中的参与者
It is a dialogue.

这是一部对话
It has a fairly large number of characters, although only

里面有着众多的人物
a relatively few number of them speak in the book.

虽然只有比较少的一部分人有说话