Hobbes wrote, "I am at the point of believing that my labors will be " as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

贺伯斯写到，“我在此要相信,我的努力将如同,柏拉图的国家一样不具实用“

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or you can get... what is the other one? I think it's the Commonwealth Award.

或者还有……另外一个是什么？我想是英联邦奖。

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Milton participated with extraordinary enthusiasm and considerable zeal in the establishment of England's new, non-monarchic government, initially a commonwealth and then what we can think of as a republic.

弥尔顿带着极大的热情,参与了组建英国的非君主制新政府的过程，这一政府起先是联邦制,后来可认为是共和制。

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It was a property of the commonwealth not of the individuals who inhabited it.

公民所占有的东西都非自己所有,而是属于国家的财产。

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But yet Muscovy was considerably less important than the commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, which was considerably much greater and subject to struggles with and influence by that state.

但俄国的影响力仍远不及,波兰-立陶宛联邦,后者远远比俄国强大,但却受制于两国的争端所照成的影响

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This is in the earliest years of the commonwealth government.

这是在联邦政府刚成立不久的几年间。

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Now, his language in that sentence that I just read from the introduction, "For by art", again, "is created that great Leviathan called a commonwealth or a state."

他在那句话里的说话,在引言里，我刚刚读过，号称“国民的整体“或“国家“的这个庞然大物,是用艺术造成的“

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Yet, no man," Hobbes continues, "can thence infer that a particular man has more liberty or immunity from the service of the commonwealth there than in Constantinople, the city of the Caliphs, the Caliphate.

言归正传，霍布斯继续说道,没有人敢说英联邦的人民,因为比君士坦丁堡的人民,有更多的自由而免于为国家服役，后者是哈里发-伊斯兰教国家领袖-所在地。

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I am at the point of believing," he says, "that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato," he says in a moment of sort of uncharacteristic despair, "will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

我就快相信，自己所做的这一切都将是无用功,就像柏拉图所建立的理想国一样,他曾异常绝望地这样说，就像柏拉图的理想国一样毫无意义“

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Does Hobbes' emphasis on the preservation of life as the supreme moral value, does this turn his mighty Leviathan into ? a kind of commonwealth of cowards?

霍布斯重视保护生命,把生命视为最高道德价值，这不是使强大的利维坦,变成了一个懦夫的联邦吗？

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For by art", he says in the introduction, "For by art is created that great Leviathan called a commonwealth or a state, " which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural for whose protection and defense it was intended."

他在引言中说，因为号称国民的整体或国家这个庞然大物,“利维坦“是用艺术造成的，它只是一个“人造的人，虽然它远比自然人身高力大,而是以保护自然人为目的“

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