Portland State University language expert Tucker Childs attended the event.

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Hobbes provided us with the definitive language in which even today we continue to speak about the modern state.

霍布斯提供了一种权威性的概念,而直到今天,我们依然用它来描述现代国家。

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But Hobbes is best when he is providing us with, in many ways, the moral and psychological language in which we think about government and the state.

但当我们在构建国家和政府的时候，霍布斯却给了我们最好的答案,即道德和心理上的需求。

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Hobbes gives us the definitive language of the modern state.

他对我们如何理解现代国家,具有决定性作用。

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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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