来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第9集 第9集》

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  And last time I spent a fair bit of time working
  上节课我花了些时间
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  through objections to,
  来反驳他的论证
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  not quite the last argument we're going to look at,
  不是我们讲的最后一个论证
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  but the penultimate argument,
  而是倒数第二个论证
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  in which Plato tries to argue for the simplicity of the soul.
  柏拉图试图论证灵魂的单一性
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  The set of connected ideas, you'll recall, were these:
  你们还记得这一系列观点就是
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  that Plato wants to suggest that
  柏拉图想说明
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  in order to be destroyed you've got to have parts;
  要摧毁某样东西就得先令它分崩离析
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  to destroy something is to
  从本质上来说
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  basically sort of take its parts apart.
  摧毁某样东西就是要让它支离破碎
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  If he could only convince us that the soul was simple,
  如果他能让大家相信灵魂是单一的
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  it would follow that it was indestructible and,
  那他就能下灵魂不可摧毁这样的结论