他手中掌握的这种威力，比金钱、恐惧或死亡更强大，可以激发人类的爱慕之心，所向披靡。

He possessed a power stronger than the power of money, or terror, or death, the invincible power to command the love of mankind.

youdao

因为几乎所有事情——外人的期待，内心的骄傲，对于失败或出丑的恐惧——所有这些事情在死亡面前，都会消失，只留下那些真正重要的事情。

Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

youdao

如果我们一直问到底，通常情况下我们会以终极恐惧结束：死亡，一无所有，或一无是处。

If we continue down this line of inquiry, most of the time we will end up with the ultimate fears: dying, being nothing, or being nobody.

youdao

But for Hobbes, we enter into society not in order to fulfill or perfect our rational nature, but rather to avoid the greatest evil, namely death or fear of death, at the hands of others.

但是霍布斯认为，我们进入社会,不是为了实现或完善我们理智的本性，倒不如说是为了避免巨大的罪恶而已，也就是死亡或对死亡的恐惧，掌握在别人手里。

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