Rarely does the narrator comment on or explain a character's actions or thoughts or motives. There's only the barest minimum of dialogue.

作者极少评价或解释一个人物的行为,或思想或动机，文章中只有不能再直白的对话。

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you're not lying to anybody else still, there are desires and motivations that govern your behavior that you may not be aware of.

并未向他人撒谎,但却依然存在着支配你行为的欲望和动机，–,只是你没有意识到罢了。

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With I should say the possible exception of the economists who often will believe that economic motives and transactions provide the key to all possible human behaviors.

知识分支当中,可能的例外是经济学家,他们常认为,是经济动机与交易,决定了所有可能的人类行为。

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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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We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

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