The sovereign, he says, or Leviathan, this great artificial man, the sovereign is something more like what we would call today an office, rather than a person, as when we speak of the executive as an office.

他说，君主，或者“利维坦，这个人造的人，君主更像是,我们今天称之的“职务“，而不是一个人，就像我们说某个职务的执行官一样。

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Prideful people, he tells us, are those overflowing with confidence about their own abilities to succeed and ? we all know people like this, don't we, like Yale students? They're all verflowing with confidence, kind of alpha types.

他说，有傲骄感的人是那些,充溢着对他们获得,成功之能力的自信,我们都熟悉这种人，不是吗，就像耶鲁的学生一样,他们都自信满满，什么都想争第一。

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what Tolstoy is trying to convince us of, what he's trying to argue, by illustrating the claim, I take it, that Tolstoy is making, is that most of us are actually in Ivan Ilyich's boat.

托尔斯泰试图通过这个故事，阐述给我们，要说服我们相信的东西，我认为他要说的是,我们中大多数人都像Ivan，Ilyich一样。

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