hopelessly in love with his mentor, Socrates.

当时正疯狂爱恋着自己的导师苏格拉底
And, uniquely, in all of these dialogues,

然而有意思的是交锋之中
Socrates doesn't get the last word. Alcibiodes does. Why?

苏格拉底没有如阿西拜厄狄斯一般抗辩到底为什么
Because passion, Plato seems to be saying,

因为正如柏拉图曾经说过
is essentially and mercilessly human.

情感就是人类本质上的弱点
And the best that we can hope to do is to quell it,

我们所能做的就是通过持久地自律
through relentless discipline.

抑制情感
To Socrates,

对苏格拉底来说
the healthy life is comprised

健康的生活
of constant focus by the individual,

就是在万众瞩目之下
to excise those forces that weaken or...

依旧保留自己的一片净土
or confuse his understanding of the world around him.

不受那些扰乱认知的杂念影响