Will not even philosophers, one might ask, given the possibility of absolute power ? be tempted to abuse their positions?

难道哲学家，有人可能问到，如果他们拥有绝对的力量时,难道不会想要滥用职权吗？

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We must wonder whether the power of modern weapons will allow it and the world to survive at such a price.

我们必须质疑现代武器的力量能否,维系自由和这个世界的存在

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They can't imagine -they don't have the power of imagination to think what the next crisis will be like, so it catches them by surprise.

他们无法想象,他们根本想象不出,下次危机爆发是什么样,所以危机发生时他们措手不及

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And then at the end of this passage, he says, "So it's a mistake to think that the legislative power can do what it will and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily " or take any part of them at pleasure."

然后在这一节的最后，他说道，“所以，以为任何国家的立法权,能为所欲为，任意处分人民产业或掠夺任何财产,这是错误的想法“

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And in Strauss in attempting to do this will use the orchestra to depict here in this particular case perhaps the rise of human power, maybe as metaphorically represented by the sun, so here is Strauss depicting the rise of the sun.

施特劳斯试着用管弦乐,以特别的方式表现人类力量的崛起,用太阳隐喻人类的力量,所以在这里施特劳斯表现了,太阳的升起

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We should note that this notion, or this idea of a god who can even make and keep an eternal covenant is only possible on the view that God's word and will are absolute, insusceptible to nullification by some superior power or some divine antagonist.

需要注意的一点是,神可以签订和遵守契约,只有可能是，上帝言语和意愿是不可违背的,并不会因为高级权力和强大对手而受到影响。

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It wants us to conceive of God as an uncontested god who through the power of his word or will creates the cosmos.

它希望我们构想一个毫无争议的上帝,他可以通过言语和意愿的力量创造宇宙。

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What turns out to be the practical fact is that he who has the power and the will to do what he wants will be able to do so, and he who has not will be forced to suffer whatever the powerful impose on him.

事实上只有有能力及意愿,去做某事的人,才能最终做成某事,而没有能力或意愿的人则会因之,而遭受不幸

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