Every polity seeks its own advantage against others, making relations between states a condition of unremitting war of all against all.

每一个政体都在追寻自身的利益,而非他者，国家间的联盟,是一种全面战争的条件，持续性的永恒对抗。

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I can understand why there is a government, state interest in protecting life

我明白为什么政府以保护生命为国家利益，

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So, today, what do you think are the greatest national security threats or threats to America's interests.

现在，您认为,什么会严重威胁美国国家安全,威胁美国国家利益。

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It's helped some countries and hurt other countries, but it certainly has changed the food landscape.

这让某些国家获利,但却损害了另外一些国家的利益,但这显然改变了食品所能涉及的范畴

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But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.

但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西

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