In the case of Leviathan, I would suggest to you, Hobbes' central question is, ? what makes authority possible?

至于《利维坦》，我要向你们说明，霍布斯的中心问题是，是什么使得权力成为可能？

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So, I want to stress the sense of natural development, not some kind of a central authority making a decision about anything.

我在这里强调,这是一种自然的发展方式,不是某种中央政权进行决议的结果

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It was something like a central bank but it was different essentially in that the National Banks really didn't have authority to run monetary policy.

它像是个中央银行,但是在本质上不同,因为国家银行真的,没有什么权力运行货币政策。

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But yet when you look at all of this, you can see that the kind of chaos, the political upheavals finds in response in the growth of central government authority and the growth of bureaucracies.

不过当你纵观全局时,你会看到这种混乱状态,特别是政治动乱是与中央政权,和官僚体系的发展紧密相关的

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