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 literary creator starts to seem a lot more like the divine creator, that is to say, and in a certain sense could be understood as a placeholder for the divine creator.

这些作者越来越被神化了，换句话说，在一定意义上,就被理解为神圣造物主的预留的位置。

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There's Yeats, too. All of them are in a sense internationals.

还有叶芝，他们在一定意义上来说都是国际的。

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The railroad had a lot to do, too, of course, with linking northeast with northwest, which has a lot to do with a certain sense of economic isolation that set in in the South, to some extent.

铁路也连接了,美国东北和西北地区,在一定程度上,它和当时南方,某种意义上的经济孤立脱不了干系

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That's what you learn, Hobbes believes, from the reading of Aristotle and the Greeks and Romans, regicide, that the only legitimate form of government is a republic and that it is a lawful and even it's your duty to kill your king.

唯一合法的政府应当是共和政体的政府，而且弑君在一定意义上也应当是合法的,甚至那还有可能是你应尽的义务,这就是那些年轻人从阅读亚里士多德,和古希腊罗马书籍中学到的东西。

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