Socrates says he will be drowned in laughter but many

苏格拉底认为会被嘲笑淹没但是许多
other people have taken this dream or this aspiration very seriously.

其他人认真考虑这个梦想和抱负
Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage

想想一个思想家我将给你们读一小段
and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester,

并在学期稍后部分再讲到这部分
from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan,

从托马斯?霍布斯'《利维坦》三十一章
where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement

霍布斯给我们一个很私人化的陈述
about his intention in writing this book.

关于自己的写作意图
Hobbes wrote, "I am at the point of believing that my labors

霍布斯说 "我此刻相信我的劳动
will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

将与柏拉图的联合体一样无用"
He seems to be rather despairing about whether this book is actually

他似乎感到绝望对自己的书是否真的
going to have any affect. "I'm in the point of believing

具有实效 "我此刻相信
it will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato,"

这本书将与柏拉图的联合体一样无用"