来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论 第2集 第2集》

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  has been used as a role model for thinkers and political activists
  被尊为思想家与政治积极分子的楷模
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  from Henry David Thoreau, to Gandhi,
  从亨利·戴维·梭罗到甘地
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  to Martin Luther King.
  再到马丁·路德·金都受到了他的影响
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  So, Socrates has become a very central symbol of
  于是 苏格拉底渐渐成为一种重要符号
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  political resistance and resistance to political power,
  意指政治反抗和对政权的反抗
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  and, of the dangers to the individual of unchecked rule.
  以及无监管统治危害个人的符号
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  But, this reading of the Apology as you might say,
  不过 读过《申辩篇》 你也许会说
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  is a kind of brief for freedom of expression and a warning against the
  这是一种为表达自由的辩护以及
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  dangers of censorship and persecution.
  对审查与迫害威胁的警告
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  Although this has been enormously influential over the centuries,
  虽然几个世纪以来这种说法影响极大
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  at least over the last century and a half,
  至少在过去一个半世纪
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  you have to ask yourself: is this the reading that Plato intended?
  但你须自问 这是柏拉图的本意吗