Hobbes regarded these passions in many ways as barbaric, as uncivilized and warlike and to some degree he was right.

霍布斯把这些人具有的品质称之为,野蛮的，未开化的和好战的,他的这一论断只有在一定意义上是正确的。

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The Greeks, in Homer's world, seem to regard one just about as well as they do the other.

荷马时期的希腊人,似乎和看重其他品质一样,看重这个品质

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What values does he embody? Grayness grayness that suggests the color of a land and a culture, the color of stone, of peasant clothes.

体现了什么品质，灰色,灰色暗示了,一种土地和文化的颜色，石头的颜色，农民衣服的颜色。

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Odysseus is the man,the wily Odysseus as Homer calls him, the man of many devices, all of those things are great and they are equally honored along with the physical courage that is so characteristic of these guys.

荷马称奥德修斯是一个老谋深算的人,他是一个足智多谋的男人,而这一切都是很棒的,并且这些品质和肉体上的勇气一样被尊敬,当然,勇敢这是这些人所共有的品质

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Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.

那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质

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