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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  And Socrates says it is better to be just, even if that results in
  而苏格拉底说正义再好不过
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  persecution and death.
  即使结果是遭受迫害甚至死亡
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  But the trial is not, again, just an enduring symbol of
  但这场审判绝不仅是正义对抗不义的不朽象征
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  justice versus injustice, it is an actual historical event
  它是真切的历史事件
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  that takes place in a particular moment of political time
  发生在政治时代的特定时间并受其局限
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  and this bears, I think, decisively on how we come
  我想这决定了我们如何去理解案例中的人
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  to understand the case both for and against Socrates.
  包括苏格拉底的支持者和反对者
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  Let me talk a little bit about that context.
  我再说说当时的背景
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  The trial of Socrates takes place in the year 399
  审判苏格拉底发生在公元前399年
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  and all of these refer to before the common era, 399.
  其中所涉事件皆在共同年代 公元前399年之前
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  Some of you will know that that trial follows very quickly upon the
  你们有人应该知道在审判不久前
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  heals of the famous Peloponnesian War.
  著名的伯罗奔尼撒战争刚刚结束