that I do come up against in this life?

不足以使我推断出来吗
I come across things that are bent;

我遇见过弯的东西
I come across things that are more straight,

我碰到过更直的东西
more and more straight.

越来越直的东西
Can't my mind take off from there

即使我之前没有直接碰到过
and push straight ahead to the idea of the perfectly straight,

难道我的心灵不能借此来推断出
even if I never have encountered it before?

完美的直线是什么样子的吗
Let me stop with this idea.

我今天以这个观点结束
Even if Plato is right,

即使柏拉图是对的
that we need to have acquaintance

我们必须
with the Platonic forms themselves in order to think about them,

先熟悉柏拉图型相才能想象它们
and even if Plato is right

即使柏拉图是对的