where they would ask people: "Do you have a view of the case?"

他们这样问人们"你们对这件案子有何看法"
Many of the jurors would have known Socrates,

很多陪审员知道苏格拉底甚至知其甚详
or certainly would have heard of him and, he says,

苏格拉底称
would have had already an unfavorable opinion formed

许多人受先代指控者影响
about him by this earlier generation of accusers.

而对他抱有成见
Reference he makes to a comic poet, yes, a comic poet,

他提到一名喜剧诗人不错喜剧诗人
an unequivocal reference to the playwright Aristophanes,

点名道姓地提及他是剧作家阿里斯托芬
whose name I have put up on the board.

这名字我写在黑板上了
Aristophanes is the one who created

阿里斯托芬是最初或是首先
the original or the initial prejudice against Socrates.

对苏格拉底制造偏见的人
What was that prejudice that Aristophanes,

这位喜剧诗人究竟给苏格拉底
this comic poet, had created?

造成了怎样的偏见