我开始相信,希望,就像我们生活离不开我们呼吸的氧气一样重要。乔治格里芬比我早很久就知道这一点了。
Hope, I have come to believe, is as vital to our lives as the very oxygen that we breathe. George Griffin knew this long before I did.
我们从食物中获得快乐的核心是对特定香味的鉴赏能力,就像我们辨别个体的能力是社交生活乐趣的核心一样。
This ability to appreciate specific aromas turns out to be central to the pleasure we get from food, much as our ability to recognise individuals is central to the pleasures of social life.
白纸就像我们的整个生活,纸中间的黑色‘X’就像我们日常生活中的问题。
The white paper is like our whole life and the black 'X' in the middle of the paper is just like problems in our daily life.
Let's imagine, as he says, human beings as if they were in a sort of laboratory test tube.
让我们设想,人类就像生活在实验室的试管里。
The natural laws for Hobbes are not divine commands or ordinances, he says, but they are rules of practical reason figured out by us as the optimal means of securing our well-being.
对霍布斯来说,自然法不是神圣的法令,或者条例,但这些是,我们发现的实践理性的法则,就像一种最佳的方式保护我们的幸福生活。
To say it's natural for us to do so is not to say we engage in political life spontaneously and avidly, as you might say spiders spin webs or ants build anthills.
说我们本能地会那么做,并不代表,我们自然且贪婪地,忙于政治生活,就像蜘蛛结网,或蚂蚁筑蚁冢。
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