Thomas Hobbes was the author of the first and, I believe, undoubtedly the greatest, work of political theory written in the English language.

托马斯·霍布斯是第一部，我相信，毫无疑问也是最伟大的一部，用英语写成的,政治学著作的作者。

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There is, in other words, a kind of a transformative view of reason and knowledge and science, political science, civil science, running throughout Hobbes' work.

换句话说，有一种看待理性的变革性的视角,知识，科学，政治科学，民间科学，都贯穿于霍布斯的作品之中。

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And what he does and what his work does is basically explain why people choose to back one political party versus the other; why they choose to live one kind of life versus the other.

他的工作和作品的贡献在于解释了,人们为什么会选择一个党派反对另一个;,为什么会选择一种生活方式摒弃另一种。

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Rather the great works provide us so to speak with a repository of fundamental or permanent questions that political scientists still continue to rely on in their work.

而不是靠巨著来回答,这么来说吧，大量基本或永恒的问题,同时也是政治科学家,仍持续在其著作中所倚赖的根本。

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It is affection loyalty and friendship that make up a regime. This sort of thing he says this political partnership is the work of affection philia is his word is the work of affection.

正是感情，忠诚及友情,构建出一个政体，他说,这类的情感，这种政治合作关系是感情的杰作,他用了，Philia，这个字，感情的杰作。

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