This would be akin to knowing the secret ingredients in your favorite beer or soft drink.

这类似于，你能够知晓你所喜欢的啤酒或软饮料的秘密配方。

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For the average consumer, the effect can be akin to going to a dealer to buy a car and being presented with a bunch of parts to assemble yourself.

对于普通消费者而言，其影响可能类似于去经销商那里购买汽车，结果却得到一大堆零配件，要由自己组装。

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The lake monster, like that of Loch Ness, is supposed to be akin to a plesiosaur, a kind of a long-necked aquatic dinosaur thought to have been an herbivore.

这个河中怪物就像尼斯湖水怪一样让人期待，很多人认为它们是蛇颈龙（一种长颈子的水上恐龙，食草动物）的近亲。

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That would be one way of reading that Hobbes seems to, wants us to think about the state of nature as akin to a scientific experiment.

这就是阅读的一个方面，霍布斯似乎，想让我们思考自然状态,就像思考科学实验一样。

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