The act or process of civilizing or reaching a civilized state.

文明的，开化的与有组织的社会相一致的；

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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

文明国家的第一原则是：权力只有通过合约授予才是合法的。

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While all other things, in a civilized state, seem to confer it only by their capacity of being exchanged for money.

在一个文明国家内，所有其他物品似乎只因能换取货币才具有这一能力。

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The Hobbesian state was intended to secure the conditions of life, even a highly civilized and cultivated life but one calculated in terms of self-interest and risk avoidance.

霍布斯眼中的国家旨在,保护人民的生命财产安全,即使是那些虽开化有教养却是为一己私利的人,也应当受到国家的保护。

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How do we get out of it? This is of course for much of the book. What do we do to get out of this state of nature to enter ? a condition of civil society and civilized life?

我们怎么摆脱它呢,所要讲的一个重要问题,我们要怎样才能摆脱自然状态,从而进入文明社会的状态，过上文明的生活呢？

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But without relentless vigilance and effort from the civilized world, Islamist extremists could gain control of a state or establish a network of radical "statelets" in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

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They fly to Thailand for medication and healthcare, where treatment is cheaper, state-of-the-art -- and definitely more civilized compared with the backwards mentality that pervades Asia's intelligent island.

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