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南航研究生英语课文翻译 南航研究生英语课文翻译 PAGE / NUMPAGES 南航研究生英语课文翻译 Apology of Socrates Let us reflect and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good; for one of two things — either death is a state of nothingness and utter(  完整的 ) unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed by dreams, and were to  a person were compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king will not find many such days and nights, when compared with the others. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is a gain; for eternity is then only a single night. But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as  men say, all the dead abide, what good, my friends and judges, can be greater than this? 我们假如从另一角度来思虑死亡， 就会觉察有绝大原由相信死亡是件好事。 死亡可能是以下两 种情况此中之一：或许完整没有知觉的虚无状态， 或是人们常说的一套，灵魂经历变化，由这个世 界移居到另一个世界。 若是你认为死后并没有知觉， 死亡如同无梦相扰的安息， 那么死亡真是无可形容的受益了。 假如 某人要把安恬无梦的一夜跟一世中的其余日子对比， 看有多少日子比这一夜更美好快乐， 我想他说 不出有多少天。不要说老百姓，就是显赫的帝王也这样。 假如这就是死亡的实质，  永久可是是一夜。 若是死亡一如人们常说的那样，  不过迁移到另一个 世界，那边借居了全部逝世的人， 那么，我的各位朋友， 法官，还有什么事情比这样来得更美好呢？ If indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors of justice in this world, and finds the true judges who are said to give judgment there, Minos and Rhadamanthus and Aeacus and Triptolemus, and other sons of God who were righteous( 正直的 ) in their own life, that pilgrimage will be worth making. What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again. I myself