他在那个地方之所见让他对所有政治权威产生了极度怀疑。

What he saw there left him with a profound distrust of all political authority.

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正是在西方，在那些怀疑权威和强烈反贵族的殖民者中开始了一种独特的美国政治文化。

It is in the west that a peculiarly American political culture began, among colonists who were suspicious of authority and intensely anti-aristocratic.

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And this means for Hobbes, first of all, adopting his book as the authoritative teaching on moral and political doctrine in the universities.

鉴于此，霍布斯的首要任务，是把他的著作作为权威的教学方式,在大学里讲授道德和政治学说。

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