He says delaying or not giving the Palestinians a sovereign state will only lead to more violence.

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And in such a world, even a sovereign state will be endangered either from other states or from groups and individuals devoted to terror and destruction.

在这样的世界里,即使是主权国家,也可能受到来自他国的侵犯,或者是个人以及团体的恐怖破坏。

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Let me talk for a while about some of the formal features of Hobbes' sovereign power, of the Hobbesian state.

接下来我要说说,霍布斯关于君主权力和他理想下的国家',应当具有的一些特征。

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Hobbes refers to the sovereign as a mortal god, as his answer to the problems of the state of nature, the state, the condition of life being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

君主就是生在凡间的神，霍布斯在回答,什么是国家的本质时这样比喻到，他的国家，他的生命都总是孤独，穷苦，下流，野蛮和短暂的。

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