At best, one could say Hobbes is a kind of part-time liberal at best.

为此，可能有人要说霍布斯至多,也就是个业余自由主义者。

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Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.

美德对他而言,是一种具男子气概的自作主张，胆大，冷酷，自助，且还会算计使用残忍手段,来达致目标。

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When these tyrannies take place, they last for different periods of time, but when the tyrant is removed, what follows after that is, there is never again in that town a one-man rule of any kind.

当僭主统治步入历史舞台,它走过了很多历史时期,但当它寿终正寝之后,在那座城邦里再也没有出现过,任何形式的独裁者了

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And they got in this habit of, every time they had a bright, happy text, they'd set this in one kind of mode or key-- a major mode--and every time they had a sad one, they'd set it in minor.

于是人们养成了这样的习惯,每当人们书写欢乐,愉悦的歌词时,他们就设定一个调式或调性,即大调,每当人们书写忧伤的歌词时,他们就定为小调

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You can only drive one car at a time and if you have five cars-- well I mean that's kind of-- all right you could have five cars and you could drive a different one everyday, but it's starting to seem a little ridiculous, right?

你只能一次开一辆车,而且如果你有五辆车,我的意思是那种...,好吧,你能有五辆车,而且你可以每天开不同的车,但是这有点荒谬,不是吗

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A limited partnership is one kind of DPP and it has--it's not a corporation, so it's a partnership.

有限合伙制是DPP的一种,它不是公司制,而是合伙制

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Hobbes, as we see, sometimes writes as a sort of scientist or proto-scientist for whom nature and one supposes the laws of nature operate with the same kind of necessity as the laws of physical attraction.

霍布斯有些时候,像科学家或者原科学家一样写作,对他来说，自然和自然法,与另一种必需法则,即物质吸引的法则共同作用。

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