"We will provide the legal, the financial, political framework for companies to do their business.

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The goal was to stop stuff like this, to try to create a legal framework in which states could resolve their kind of differences without kind of butchering each other.

他这么做的目的就是为了终结这种战乱的状况,并且试图创建一个法律体系,各国可以通过这个体系,而不是相互残杀来解决分歧

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Hobbes, in other words, tried to render acceptable, tried to render palatable, what Machiavelli had done by providing a more precise and more legal and institutional framework for the modern state.

霍布斯，换句话说，试图去变得易于接受，试图去变得更加愉快，马基雅维利的做法是,给现代国家提供一个,更加精确，更加法定的机构性框架。

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