来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第1集 第1集》

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  We'll be reading one of Plato's dialogues.
  我们将会读一段柏拉图的对话
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  But for the most part,
  但是大部分时候
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  although I'll occasionally,
  尽管我将不时地
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  periodically refer to the readings,
  偶尔地提及课外阅读材料
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  I won't spend a lot of time talking about the views in the readings.
  但我不会花很多时间谈论书中的观点
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  The readings you should think of as complementary to my lectures.
  因为你应该把那些书当作是我上课的补充
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  The idea is that there's more to say than what I've said.
  它们会比我所讲的内容更为丰富
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  And you'll find some more of what there is to say in the readings.
  你将会在阅读中发现在更多的知识
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  Or there may be positions that I mention,
  或者我会提到其中的观点
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  but I don't develop,
  但我不会展开去谈
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  because I'm not perhaps sympathetic to them,
  因为我无法与其产生共鸣
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  and you might find
  而你可能在阅读中