Hardy is full of all those quaint gothic, archaic dictions and fancies.

哈迪满是那样奇特有趣的哥特式想法，古代措辞和想象力。

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For all of his tough talk, Hobbes takes justice and the rule of law very seriously, far more seriously than, for example, does Machiavelli.

在他那些强硬的措辞中可看出,霍布斯对正义和法律的态度，始终是极为严谨的，比马基雅维利的态度要严谨得多。

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But it's amazing to read the letters and the language of slave traders when they write to each other, the complacency, the mixture of just pure racism on the one hand and just business language on the other.

当你阅读到那些奴隶商们,在往来的书信中所使用的言辞时,会令你非常震惊的,一面是混合在纯粹的种族歧视中的自满,另一面是那种完全商业化的措辞

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We want to be more--a bit more sophisticated than that, if you will, and use other terms, so we'll talk generally about Beethoven's composition or Beethoven's piece or Beethoven's work or his master work or chef d'oeuvre or however fancy you want to get with it.

我们想用些更精确的词藻,用其他措辞表现,我们一般会说贝多芬的音乐创作,或贝多芬的乐章,贝多芬的乐曲,他的杰作,或名曲,或是任何你想到的花哨词汇称呼它

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