And here's the thing; the idea is to drink as much as you can without passing out and at the end of Plato's Symposium everybody is out, except for Socrates who looks around and says, "oh well no more conversation everybody's asleep."

所以,飨宴的目的是,让你在开怀痛饮的同时,又不至于醉得不省人事,在柏拉图飨宴的最后大家都醉倒了,除了苏格拉底,他看着周围说,"好的,都没话说了,大家都睡着了"

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