The person with the best argument, let the best argument prevail.

持最强论点的人推广其最强论点
The famed Socratic method of argumentation is basically all that

著名的苏格拉底辩论法基本上
remains of the older pre-Socratic culture of struggle and combat.

全面保持对较早的前苏格拉底斗争和战斗的文化
The new Socratic citizen is to be trained in the art of argument

新苏格拉底式公民则被教以辩论和辩证法的技巧
and dialectic, and we will talk a little later about what that means.

我们之后将就这含义再深谈
So, it is a challenger to the poets and all they stand for,

苏格拉底言行表现出的乃是对诗歌以及他们所代表的
the century-long tradition of poetic education that Socrates

的有一个世纪之久的
asserts himself, that Socrates presents himself.

诗歌教育的挑战
The Apology shows Socrates as offering

《申辩篇》中苏格拉底
a new model of citizenship,

提供了一种新式公民素质的模型
a new kind of citizen.

一种新式公民
His challenge to the poets is in a way the basis for the resentment

他向诗歌的挑战在某种意义上埋下了反对者对他的怨恨