The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.

饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。

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The idea of going into battle is not merely to avoid being killed; the purpose is to kill the other fellow.

战场上并不只是防守,更重要的是杀敌斩将

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The only way to avoid that is to lobotomize me, and that's not desirable.

唯一的解决方法是作额叶切除术，那不是我想要的。

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Now many of us are not investors or at least would like to avoid investing with myself included But in the most, this is the most ubiquitous economic decision out there.

我们中许多人都不是投资者,或至少像我一样不想涉及到投资行业里面,但在大多数情况下，这却是经济决策中最普遍的。

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Hobbes believed, on the other hand, that the overriding human fact, the overriding motivation of human behavior, is largely negative, not the desire to do good, but the desire to avoid some evil.

另一方面，霍布斯认为，人类最主要的行为，人行为的最主要的动机，在很大程度上是负面的，并不是为了做善良的事，只不过是为了避免罪恶的发生。

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But for Hobbes, we enter into society not in order to fulfill or perfect our rational nature, but rather to avoid the greatest evil, namely death or fear of death, at the hands of others.

但是霍布斯认为，我们进入社会,不是为了实现或完善我们理智的本性，倒不如说是为了避免巨大的罪恶而已，也就是死亡或对死亡的恐惧，掌握在别人手里。

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