We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

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That he who lets go of what is done for what should be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation."

放弃已完成,之应该完成事务的人,体认到的是自我毁灭而非延续“

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But how do we get to 1861 and that secession crisis with Alexander H. Stephens delivering this Cornerstone Speech, declaring that, "Hey folks, it's all about slavery and its preservation?"

但事情怎么会演变到1861年那样,乃至之后的分离危机,亚历山大为何能在这篇演讲中,宣称,"嘿,伙计们,今天我要讲的是奴隶制和对其保护"

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"The supreme power," By which Locke means the legislature, "Cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent, for the preservation of property being the end of government and that for which men enter into society, " it necessarily supposes and requires that people should have property."

最高权力“,这里洛克指的是立法机关，“未经本人同意，不能取去任何人财产的任何部分，因为，既然保护财产是政府的目的,也是人们加入社会的目的，这就必然假定而且要求人民应该享有财产权“

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And even the greatest goods, the founding and preservation of cities, often require murder.

就算是最大的善事，像是创建与保守城市，也通常是透过谋杀的手段。

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So it's essential for the maintenance, preservation of the world.

因此祭仪对于维护世界的延续是必不可少的。

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All political action aims at preservation or change.

所有的政治行动,都是以保守或变革为目的。

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Holy things are holy because they are removed from the realm of the common by means of rules or safeguards that demarcate them as different and separate and determine that we use them differently. The preservation of holy status therefore depends on those rules and safeguards.

神圣的东西之所以神圣是因为,它们通过规则和保护措施远离了普通的界域,这些保护将它们划分为是与众不同的，并且决定了,我们应该不一样地使用它们，神圣状态的保留时间长短,取决于这些规则和保护措施。

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All actions aim at preservation or change, at making something better or preventing it from becoming worse.

所有行动都是为了维持或者改变，为了让事物变得更美好,为了不让它变得糟糕。

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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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