Shakespeare in the theater seemed to represent a temptation greater even than promiscuous sex or perhaps akin to sex.

在戏剧中,莎士比亚似乎更代表着一种诱惑,而不是乱性或类似的性关系。

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and that something that happens was often very mysterious, very akin, I think, sometimes to inspiration.

而这种想法，常常是神秘的，有时候，与“灵感“很相似。

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And in its stead Rutherford proposed something akin to a planetary system.

而卢瑟福提出的,和行星系统相似的原子结构取而代之。

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That would be one way of reading that Hobbes seems to, wants us to think about the state of nature as akin to a scientific experiment.

这就是阅读的一个方面，霍布斯似乎，想让我们思考自然状态,就像思考科学实验一样。

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