When Plato writes his Republic and devotes Book Ten, as I'm sure most of you know, to an argument in effect banishing the poets from the ideal republic, part of the argument is that poets are terrible imitators.

当柏拉图写《理想国》和《第十卷》的时候，你们肯定都听过这两部著作，他提出了一个一个论点，要把诗人从理想国中驱逐出境，他提到，诗人都是拙劣的仿造者。

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We even hear more than any single individual and then in the same text we also hear Aristotle praising the practice of ostracism that is to say exiling banishing those individuals deemed to be pre-eminent in any particular virtue or quality.

我们能听到比单一个体更多的思想,而在同一段落中，我也看到亚里士多德,赞美放逐的作法,即流放，放逐那些,可能会在某些美德与特质上,特别卓越的个体。

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