The prisoners seemed in poor condition.

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It is a condition for Hobbes of maximum insecurity where in his famous formula " "life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

对霍布斯来说，这是一种使安全感最大化的状态,这种安全感在他有名的公式中被表述,“生命是孤独的，贫穷的，肮脏的，残忍的，短暂的“

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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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