This also explains why the Sophists, who professed to teach these skills, were looked on with admiring eyes by ambitious youths wherever they went, and why they were able to command handsome fees from wealthy families.

• 这也说明了那些宣称自己能够教授演说术的智者们为什么在任何地方都能够受到雄心勃勃的年轻人尊敬的原因，也说明了为什么他们能够从富有家庭收取昂贵的学费的原因。