Earlier this week,a group representing Mogadishu's dominant Hawiye clan said that al-Shabab militants had sent death threats to clan elders for participating in peace and reconciliation efforts with Somalia's interim government.

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Sovereign is to have supreme command over life and death, war and peace, what is to be taught and heard.

君主对人的生死，和平或是战争,均拥有至高无上的权力，其他人等只有服从命令。

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The passions that incline men to peace, Hobbes writes, are fear of death.

霍布斯写到，对死亡的恐惧，使人趋向和平。

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