While it may not be worthwhile for older patients, younger patients are more likely to regard anything that gives them a lifelong working knee joint as well worth the cost.

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Only those in other words engaged in the continual struggle to clarify their thinking to remove sources of contradiction and incoherence only those people can be said to live worthwhile lives.

换言之，也仅有那些身处,持恒挣扎于厘清其思维的人,于移除矛盾及无条理源头的人,仅有那些人,才称得上是值得活的生命。

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The Athenians refuse to tolerate Socrates because they know he is not harmless, that he poses a challenge, a fundamental challenge to their way of life and all that they hold to be noble and worthwhile.

雅典人拒绝容忍苏格拉底,因为他们明白他并非无害，他公然挑衅，社会本质的生活方式,及他们视为崇高及值得的观念。

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