上句见：Day390
The Story of Philosophy《哲学的故事》第1章Plato第7节VI. The Psychological Solution第11段第1句：
Those who pass this first test will receive ten more years of education and training, in body and mind and character. And then they will face a second test, far severer than the first. Those who fail will become the auxiliaries, or executive aides and military officers of the state. Now it is just in these great eliminations that we shall need every resource of persuasion to get the eliminated to accept their fate with urbanity and peace. For what is to prevent that great unselected majority, in the first test, and that lesser but more vigorous and capable second group of Eliminees, from shouldering arms and smashing this Utopia of ours into a mouldering reminiscence? What is to prevent them from establishing there and then a world in which again mere number or mere force will rule, and the sickly comedy of a sham democracy will reënact itself da capo ad nauseam? Then religion and faith will be our only salvation: we shall tell these young people that the divisions into which they have fallen are God-decreed and irrevocable — not all their tears shall wipe out one word of it. We shall tell them the myth of the metals:
"Citizens, you are bothers, yet God has framed you differently. Some of you have the power of command; and these he has made of gold, wherefore they have the greatest honor; other of silver, to be auxiliaries; others again, who are to be husbandmen and craftsmen, he has made of brass and iron; and the species will generally be preserved in the children. But as you are of the same original family, a golden parent will sometimes have a silver son, or a silver parent a golden son. Are God proclaims … that if the son of a golden or a silver parent has an admixture of brass or iron, then nature requires a transposition of ranks; and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful towards his child because he has to descend in the scale to become a husbandman or an artisan, just as there may be other sprung from the artisan class who are raised to honor, and become guardians and auxiliaries. For an oracle says that when a man of brass or iron guards the state, it will be destroyed"(415).
Perhaps with this "royal fable" we shall secure a fairly general consent to the furtherance of our plan.
浙江大学译本：通过初试的这批人将继续接受为期十年的针对其身体、心灵和品质的教育和训练。
解析
1、Those who pass this first test will receive ten more years of education and training, in body and mind and character.
通过首次“大淘汰”者将继续接受额外10年的教育与训练，涉及身体、心灵及品质。
上段讲到“大淘汰”的淘汰者将去从事生产者，而这段开始讲通过者的接下来的旅程。“education”与“training”显然是不同的内容，见下图。前者侧重智慧与思维的培养，后者侧重体能。显然两者结合才能达到最大化，少些“英年早逝”或者“终身碌碌无为”。有时，可以用时间熬出成就，细水慢流。现在貌似不流行这个，更流行过早的变成“巨人”，为他人做嫁衣裳，实在被“卷”出来的，忘了如何慢了，也怕慢了可能一事无成。
