In one of Plato's lesser known dialogues he makes a statement--the following statement, which I think shows both the typical arrogance of the Greeks and also says something true.

在柏拉图的一个不怎么出名的对话录中,他作了一个声明,以下是这些声明,我认为它们既是希腊人典型的傲慢的体现,又说到了一些事实

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This is part of the arrogance that is characteristic of the Ancient Greeks, but at the same time, and right away at the beginning we're getting to such a very Greek thing, a Greek characteristic.

这部分体现了古希腊人的特点,傲慢,但与此同时——,我们现在就要谈到到一个非常希腊式的事情,一个希腊人的特点——

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They had a concept called hybris, to be translated as something among these terms, excess, arrogance,violence.I think the fullest grasp of it, I think, might be rendered best by violent arrogance.

他们有一种称为hybris的概念,hybris可以理解为,过度,傲慢或暴力,但我认为最好理解成极度自大

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