Hobbes was born in 1588, the year that the English naval forces drove back the invasion of the famous Spanish Armada.

霍布斯出生在1588年，这一年也是英国海军,击退著名的西班牙无敌舰队的一年。

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The problem was if you have a basically landlocked power and want to get to the sea, then you'd better have a navy.

问题是,如果你是一个强大的内陆国家,你想使自己的势力到达海洋,最好要有一支海军

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It had established Athens as a mighty and redoubtable naval power and it created an unprecedented level of artistic and cultural life even today known simply as Periclean Athens.

建立了雅典强大且令人敬畏的海军强权,而且催生了史无前例的,璀璨艺术与文化生活,甚至今日仍以伯里克利斯的雅典闻名。

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If you use a navy, your state will be a democracy in which the lower classes are dominant.

olitea政体是柏拉图设想的完美政体 如果以海军为主力,那一定是以草根为基础的,民主政体城邦

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He once said that if he wasn't the czar of all the Russians, what he would want to be would be an English admiral.

他曾经说过,如果他不是俄国人的沙皇,他会做个英国的海军上将

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They always had to have a large standing navy for obvious reasons.

他们有充足的理由组建庞大的常备海军

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So, in all of this, what he does is he makes, to use an expression that I've already used before in the context of absolutism, he makes the Boyars, while he's building his navy and expanding Russia, he makes the Boyar junior partners in absolutism.

所以,通过所有的这些事情,用我之前用过的一个词来形容,他使得波维尔们,当他在建海军和扩张领土时,他使得波维尔贵族臣服在他的绝对权威之下

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