缩短

What was said is roughly true of the Sophists, but it will hardly do for the orators, Isocrates and Quintilian, since they thought of the orator not only as the possessor of a number of skills, but as essentially concerned with truth and virtue.

智者们的真理观被认为是粗糙的，但对于演说家来几乎不赞同这一点，因为克拉底、昆体良认为演说家不仅是各种技能的拥有者，而且是与真理和美德有着本质联系的。

In the beginning, it was pretty bad when you have four races and you always have first-lap collisions and never see the chequered flag, you can't be happy.

开始的时候，当你有四场比赛都在第一圈发生碰撞，从没见到过格子旗，你肯定很郁闷。