You have probably come across a few of these sophists in your young life.

你小，但或许已经遇见过几位这样的诡辩学家。

The word " sophist" means a wise and informed person.

Sophist这个字原来指的是一个有智慧而且博学的人(按：一般贬称为诡辩学家)。

This led the Sophists to raise the question of what was natural and what was socially induced.

这使得那些诡辩学家不禁质疑哪些事物是与生俱来，而哪些事物又是社会环境造成的。

He did not consider himself to be a " sophist" , that is, a learned or wise person.

他不认为自己是个“智者”，即博学或聪明的人。

Isocrates, in what is called his discourse against the sophists, reproaches the teachers of his own times with inconsistency.

伊索克拉底在他所谓的反对诡辩者的演讲中，指责他那个时代的老师前后矛盾。

That some sophists wrote tragedies and that tragedians manipulate sophistic rhetoric is not a casual overlap of interest.

一些诡辩家写悲剧和悲剧演员操纵诡辩修辞不是偶然的兴趣重叠。

To help you get started, let me offer some quick advice for dealing with modern-day sophists who try to obscure — and deny — truth.

为了帮助您入门，让我提供一些议，如何对付那些试图掩盖、否认真相的现代Sophists。

Because it is central to the rest of this course that you fully understand the difference between a sophist and a philosopher.

你必须完全了解“智者”与“哲学家”之间的差异，这样我们才能继续上以后的课程。

The Sophists took money for their more or less hairsplitting expoundings, and sophists of this kind have come and gone from time immemorial.

智者会因为他们或多或少吹毛求疵的阐述而拿钱，而这类智者自古以来就来来去去。

If a suitably wealthy young man wanted to get on in public life, then he hired a Sophist to train him to speak persuasively.

如果一个相当富有的轻人想在公共生活中出人头地，那么他会聘请一位智者来训练他说话有说服力。

Almost nothing survives of the voluminous writings of the original or older Sophists, particularly with the first and most famous of them, Protagoras. Three doctrines are associated with Protagoras, although evidence here is scanty and skewed by Plato.

原始智者或较早的智者的大量著作几乎没有留存下来，尤其是其中第一位也是最著名的智者普罗泰戈拉 (Protagoras)。三种学说与普罗泰戈拉有关，尽管这里的证据很少而且被柏拉图歪曲了。