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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Some of them are predisposed to dislike Saussure and to hope that they can somehow discredit him by learning more about things that he thought that aren't actually in the text.

那些不喜欢他的人们,希望能找出更多书中没有提到的,他的思想，以打击此书的权威性。

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But,what they do is they increase the power of the center, of the government.

他们这么做的目的是增强中央,政府的权威性

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Or, if you don't believe Spinoza, if you don't believe his authority is sufficient, consider someone who you'll be reading in a couple of weeks, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from the Social Contract.

或者，假如你不相信斯宾诺莎，假如你不信,他的权威性，那么想一想几星期之后,你们将要读到的一个人，让·雅克·卢梭，在《社会契约论》中。

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The poem is obviously magisterial.

很明显，这首诗有其权威性。

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Now it's odd that this text does have the same formative function.

这样的话这本书的权威性就收到了质疑。

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