Social media has given rise to a new golden age of sophistry — aided and abetted by blind partisanship.

社交媒体带来了诡辩的新黄金时代——被盲目的党派立场借力和怂恿。

But Socrates differed from the Sophists in one significant way.

不过，苏格拉底有一点与诡辩学派不同，而这点很重要。

None of these companies is very big at the moment. Others are reportedly in their infancies. Many more will probably follow the emergence of clever web-based exchanges. All face formidable obstacles.

vi. 诡辩。

That is a leap. - The first time restorative justice gets applied to a murder charge here, and the client gets punished for it?

这是诡辩。 -这是恢复性司法首次用于谋杀指控，而当事却因此受？

What drives this increase in lying sophistication is the development of a child's ability to put himself or herself in someone else's shoes.

孩子设身处地为他着想的能力的发展，驱动着这种谎言诡辩的增长。

Socrates lived at the same time as the Sophists.

苏格拉底与那些诡辩学家生在同一时代。

In ancient Greece, these were called Sophists — and they would have loved Twitter and Facebook.

在古希腊，这些被称诡辩者(Sophists)——他们肯定会喜欢Twitter和Facebook。

But even if we cannot know the answers to all of nature's riddles, we know that people have to learn to live together.

诡辩学家认为，我们虽然无法知道所有自然之谜的答案，却可以肯定须学习如何共同生活。

" Man is the measure of all things, " said the Sophist Protagoras (c. 485-410 BC).

诡辩学家普罗塔哥拉斯(Protagoras，约公元前四八五一公元前四一O年)曾说过：“是衡量一切的尺度。”

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(按：一般贬称为诡辩学家)。

Unlike the Sophists, he did not teach for money.

他也不像诡辩学家一样，为赚钱而教书。

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

你年纪虽小，但或许已经遇见过几位这样的诡辩学家。

So, sophism has also been used in a negative way.

因此，诡辩这个词也带有贬义。

In the ancient world, they had sophists and they had demagogues.

在古代世界，他们有诡辩家，也有煽动者。

Would you want every one to accept that sophistic rot?

你想让每个都接受那种诡辩的腐烂吗？

And the paradoxes in which Raffles revelled, and the frivolous casuistry which was nevertheless half sincere, and which his mere personality rendered wholly plausible at the moment of utterance, appealed very little to me when recalled in cold blood.

莱佛士沉迷于其中的悖论，以及半是真诚的轻浮诡辩，他的个性在说话的那一刻完全有道理，当冷血地回忆起来时，对我来说没什么吸引力。

" I have worked—some" . This by Anthony was an imprudent bringing up of raw reserves. Gloria laughed, torn between delight and derision; she resented his sophistry as at the same time she admired his nonchalance.

“我工作过——一些”。安东尼的做法是轻率地提出原始储备。格洛丽亚笑了起来，在喜悦和嘲笑之间挣扎。她厌恶他的诡辩，同时又钦佩他的冷漠。

This apology is founded altogether in the sophistry of the mercantile system; and, after the long examination which I have already bestowed upon that system, it may, perhaps, be unnecessary to say anything further about it.

这种道歉完全是建立在商业体系的诡辩之上的；并且，在我已经对那个系统进行了长时间的检查之后，也许就没有要再多说什么了。

The subject in which, after a very few simple and almost obvious truths, the most careful attention can discover nothing but obscurity and uncertainty, and can consequently produce nothing but subtleties and sophisms, was greatly cultivated.

在极少数简单和几乎明显的真理之后，最细心的注意只能发现晦涩和不确定的东西，因此只能产生微妙和诡辩的主题，因此得了极大的培养。

She knew it for what it was; Mr. Bell's kindly sophistry that nearly all men were guilty of equivocal actions, and that the motive ennobled the evil, had never had much real weight with her.

她知道它是什么。贝尔先生善意的诡辩说几乎所有的都犯了模棱两可的行为，动机使罪恶高尚，但她从来没有真正重视过。