And so I'm going to leave you here at the end of this lecture less with a conclusion than with a paradox.

我准备就讲到这里，留给你们,一个文学上的悖论而非一个结论。

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But the Hobbesian point, the paradox being that the Hobbesian bourgeois cannot entirely dispense with the barbarian, even in its own midst.

这就是霍布斯的悖论,他的资产阶级不可能完全免于野蛮人的挑战,甚至这挑战就来自于资产阶级的内部。

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It is--at least, it puts itself out there as a candidate to be an alternative term that one might use if one got tired of saying "irony" or "paradox."

如果“讽刺“，“悖论“一类的词,用的太多,可以用“朦胧“来替换“

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The paradox then is how do you create such a fast computer with such slow stuff?

那么这里的悖论就是,你是如何用传输如此缓慢的材料,制造出反应如此迅速的计算机的

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It uses the language of story and song and poetry and paradox and metaphor.

它运用故事和歌曲中的言语,和诗歌，悖论，隐喻去表达。

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This is the fundamental paradox of Christianity.

这也正是基督教最基本的矛盾所在。

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However, and this is what I want to emphasize throughout our reading of Hobbes, he has always been something of a paradox to his readers.

然而，在阅读霍布斯的著作时,我想强调的是，对于他的读者来说,他一直是一种悖论。

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The best regime embodies a supreme paradox it would seem. It is superior in some ways to all actual regimes but it has no concrete existence anywhere.

最优的政体体现了至高的矛盾,看起来，它似乎在某些层面,优于所有现行的政体,但却缺乏具体的存在事实。

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And this paradox was noted even in Hobbes' own time.

这个悖论甚至在霍布斯的时代也是非常有名的。

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Can Hobbes explain this paradox?

霍布斯能解释这个悖论吗？

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Does he fully intend to obey this command, to annul the covenantal promise with his own hand? Or does he trust in God to intervene? Or is this a paradox of faith? Does Abraham intend faithfully to obey, all the while trusting faithfully that God's promise will nevertheless be fulfilled?

他是否完全打算遵守这个命令，亲手废止,契约的应许？或者，他信任上帝的干涉吗？又或者,这是个信仰的悖论吗？亚伯拉罕打算忠诚地服从，同时,忠实地相信即使如此上帝的应许也会实现吗？

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Well, that's something I want you to think about and maybe I'm sure you'll want to talk about in your sections, but let me propose something like the following to answer or at least to respond to this paradox, this question.

这是我要你们思考的问题,我也确定,你们也想要在讨论时段发言，但让我先提出以下这些回答,或至少说是响应这个悖论，这个问题。

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So this is a question that I want to continue today, to consider what the trial of Socrates means and I want to begin by going back to a problem or a paradox that I ended the class with last time.

这就是我今天要继续的问题，考虑苏格拉底受审的意义,我想要先回到一个问题,一个悖论,也是我们上堂课所遗留的。

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