In fact, we have, and I want to read to you in just a moment a lengthy transcript of Plato's own account of why he came to write the Republic.

实际上，我们握有，我马上就会与你们分享,柏拉图冗长的亲笔解说,为何他要撰写《理想国》

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So, if you were someone that was getting it after it had been passed through many people, you wouldn't have as strong or as lengthy a protection as the first individual did.

如果一个疫苗经过很多人的传递,再接种到你身上,你不会获得像第一个接受疫苗的人,那样强效持久的免疫效果

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In the most famous of these letters, the lengthy seventh one, he gives us, again, something of an autobiography and tells us a little bit about why he came to write this book.

这些书信中最著名的，是冗长的第七封，他写下类似自传的东西,并简单地讲述了,为何他要写这本巨著。

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Here's one, "It is clear that the emergence of the hoplite was only the beginning of a lengthy process which certainly lasted more than a century, and may have lasted more than two centuries, leading to the creation of a close ordered hoplites only phalanx.

他说道,"很显然重装步兵的出现,仅仅是漫长战争史的开端,持续了多达一个世纪,甚至可能超过两个世纪,漫长的战争造就了列阵严整的重步兵方阵

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