All right. So with this said, it's probably time to say something in defense of the author.

好了，这么说来，差不多是时候,为作者的权威辩护了。

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Hobbes does not praise vigilance in defense of liberty and he denounces all efforts to resist the government.

霍布斯并非要,赞扬人民维护自由的警觉态度,而是要谴责那些反抗政府的徒劳之举。

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Who would speak here in defense of Locke or make sense, find a way out of this predicament?

谁愿意为洛克辩护,或帮他摆脱这个困境？

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A good example of that is Pollan's book, In Defense of Food, that you started reading now.

以鲍兰的著作《为食物辩护》为例,这本书你们已经开始读了

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All of that is a way of simply saying it was deep and abiding and well-rehearsed thousands of pages were written in defense of slavery.

所有我提到过的著作都是,为了表达深入人心的,持久不变的奴隶制,上千页的著作都是对其的辩护

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This is one of the primary strategies that Milton develops, especially in the first two books of Paradise Lost, as a kind of defense against his dependence on classical literature.

这是弥尔顿发展出的早期策略之一，尤其是在《失乐园》的前两册书中,这似乎是在反驳他对古典文学的依赖。

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Trotsky's Literature and Revolution is a brilliant book, an attack on many things and a defense of certain other things, but in particular and very painfully an attack on the formalists.

列夫，托洛斯基的文学与革命非常精彩，它攻击了许多当时的理论，同时也维护了一些，但是它特别猛烈地攻击了形式主义者。

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It's important to realize--as you read the dialogue, it becomes fairly apparent-- that there isn't so much any defense of the belief in the soul.

值得注意的是,当你们读这篇对话时,会发现里面并没有,多少篇幅很明显地,论证灵魂的存在

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Now one of the books that will be assigned for the class is by Michael Pollan called, In Defense of Food, and he spends some time in that book discussing and he has a very interesting take on it.

这门课要布置给你们阅读的书中,有一本是迈克尔·鲍兰写的,为食物辩护,书中的部分内容,是讨论何为食物,他的某些见解很独到

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And Milton's defense of controversy seems in a lot of ways continually to be slipping in to something like a defense of poetry, or certainly a defense of his own poetic practice.

弥尔顿对于论战的辩护似乎在某种程度上持续地,渐渐变为对诗歌的辩护，或是理所当然地变为对自己诗歌的尝试的辩护。

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And Dew wrote a forceful defense of slavery in the wake of this, which became kind of a seminal text for all future pro-slavery writers.

此后后德夫为维护奴隶制写了一份有力的辩护,这份辩护被所有后来的亲奴主义作家,尊为一部文献

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A Hobbesian state, paradoxically, still requires from its citizens, men and women prepared to fight to risk everything in the defense of their way of life.

如此一来，矛盾便凸显出来了,即霍布斯理想中的国家,也照样要求他的人民时刻准备牺牲一切,来维护他们的生活方式。

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So you think that this is a defense, this defense of private property in land... Yes, because it complicates original acquisition If you only cite the arrival of foreigners that cultivated the land.

所以你认为他是在，为土地的私人所有作辩护吗。,是的，因为这复杂化了“最初占有“原则,如果只引用外国人到来并耕种土地这一例子的话。

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He had not only written really quite daringly on behalf of the execution of this particular king, but he wrote another pamphlet, Eikonoklastes , which is a shocking defense of just regicide in general - not just in England, but as a kind of political principle.

他不仅对处死国王一事大胆的发表言论,还写了另外一本书，《圣容破坏者》,这本书为正义的弑君做了惊人的辩护,-不仅是在英国的这次弑君，还是一条普遍的政治原则。

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The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.

这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西

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Now turning to your sheet, in the early, early modern period the poet and courtier, Sir Philip Sidney, wrote an elegant, really wonderfully written defense of poetry, in one edition called The Apology for Poesie.

现在回到发给你们的材料上来，英国，伊丽莎白时期的朝臣及诗人，西德尼，曾写过很多很多，优美的诗歌，全部收录在一本名为《诗辩》的集子里。

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