For this reason, Plato has often been cast as a kind of harbinger of the modern totalitarian state.

因此柏拉图,常被视为是现在,极权主义国家的先驱。

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So your experiences in France, whatever they are-- interesting as they may be-- can't really cast any light on what it would be like to permanently move to France.

所以你在法国的经验,不管怎么样,即使很有趣,那也不能让人了解,永久地搬到法国是什么样的

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The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place.

但本书的著作目的，不仅是,永恒的的哲学论述，更是戏剧性的对话，内含场景，人物,及一个确切时间与位置。

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