But the American Red Cross said that, in the interest of public safety, it would no longer accept blood donations from people who admit to having the condition.

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States stand to one another on the world stage as individuals do in the condition of nature; that is to say, potential enemies with no higher authority by which to adjudicate their conflicts.

国家相对于世界的关系,就好比人相对于自然的关系;,也就是说,在冲突面前不会有更高的权威,来裁定谁对谁错，只能弱肉强食。

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And by a "state of nature" he means, or by a state of war, he means a condition where there is no recognized authority in his language to keep us in awe, no authority to awe us.

而且通过“自然状态，或者通过战争状态，他意在说明一种状态,在他的说法里没有一个被认可的权力,将我们维持在敬畏中，没有权利使我们敬畏。

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This is again the sort of existential condition in which Hobbes wants to put us in the state of nature and all the benefits he lists there, he enumerates, that are denied to us in such a condition, again no knowledge, no geography, no cultivation of the earth, no navigation or building.

这也是霍布斯,把我们置于自然状态,和他列举的益处的,现存状态中，在这种状态中,否认知识，地理，土地栽培，航海和舒适建筑的存在。

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