2019-03-28
CHAPTER ONE: Plato II. Socrates
We know so little about him, and yet we know him so much more intimately（亲近） than the aristocratic Plato or the reserved and scholarly Aristotle.
【夏鹏赏析】形容词不是随便用的，代表着作者对这件事的态度和修饰，是一种细节上的雕刻。此处用aristocratic、reserved、scholarly来修饰另外两个哲学家，说明作者认为苏格拉底虽然没有这些特征，却通过自己的kindness和我们更加亲近。
Across two thousand three hundred years we can yet see his ungainly figure, clad（穿着） always in the same rumpled（弄皱的） tunic, walking leisurely through the agora（广场）, undisturbed by the bedlam（喧闹） of politics, buttonholing（强制谈话） his prey, gathering the young and the learned about him, luring them into some shady nook（角落） of the temple porticos, and asking them to define their terms.
They were a motley crowd, these youths who flocked（像小鸟一样环绕在老鹰周围） about him and helped him to create European philosophy.
There were rich young men like Plato and Alcibiades, who relished his satirical analysis of Athenian democracy.
【夏鹏赏析】哲学为什么会产生在希腊？有钱才有闲。有点钱就要闲，多思考，然后用巧劲而不是蛮劲赚钱。
