Bear this in mind as you are reading the book,

当你读书的时候时刻记着这些
because it is easy to kind of forget who's talking and what they represent.

因为忘掉谁在说话他们代表着什么是很容易的
Adeimantus is, we will find, the kind of

我们会发现阿德曼妥思拥有一种
hedonistic and pleasure-seeking brother.

快乐主义的人
Glaucon, whose name means something like "gleaming",

格劳孔他的名字代表着"闪烁"
"shining," is the fierce and war-like of the two brothers.

是两兄弟中的暴躁一面
Of course, there is the philosophically-minded Socrates.

当然书里还有贤明的苏格拉底
Again, each of them seems to represent, in a superior way,

他们中的每一个似乎都代表着人类灵魂中
the key components of the human soul,

最优秀的关键成分
the appetitive, the war-like or spirited,

欲望好战英勇
and the rational.

以及理性
Together, these figures form a kind of microcosm of humanity.

这些品质共同组成了人类的缩影