上句見：Day390
The Story of Philosophy《哲學的故事》第1章Plato第7節(jié)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 re?nact 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.
浙江大學譯本：通過初試的這批人將繼續(xù)接受為期十年的針對其身體、心靈和品質(zhì)的教育和訓練。
解析
1、Those who pass this first test will receive ten more years of education and training, in body and mind and character.
通過首次“大淘汰”者將繼續(xù)接受額外10年的教育與訓練，涉及身體、心靈及品質(zhì)。
上段講到“大淘汰”的淘汰者將去從事生產(chǎn)者，而這段開始講通過者的接下來的旅程?！癳ducation”與“training”顯然是不同的內(nèi)容，見下圖。前者側(cè)重智慧與思維的培養(yǎng)，后者側(cè)重體能。顯然兩者結(jié)合才能達到最大化，少些“英年早逝”或者“終身碌碌無為”。有時，可以用時間熬出成就，細水慢流?，F(xiàn)在貌似不流行這個，更流行過早的變成“巨人”，為他人做嫁衣裳，實在被“卷”出來的，忘了如何慢了，也怕慢了可能一事無成。
