He only insists that sovereign power remain absolute and undivided whether it belongs to a single person, a few, or the many.

他所强调的是,无论国家权力是掌控在个人手里,还是少数人或是集体手里，它都应当是绝对而不可分割的。

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Hobbes derives the very power of the sovereign from the natural right of each individual to do as they like in the state of nature.

他认为君主的权力源自于,人民原本在自然社会中,能自由行使的个人权力。

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In many ways he is advancing a philosophic postulate of great scope and power, although the full development of the thesis is only left deeply embedded.

从很多方面看来,他是在向一种宏观视野,与权力的哲学式假说迈进，虽然这个论点并未发展完全,只是深植在他的想法中。

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And by a "state of nature" he means, or by a state of war, he means a condition where there is no recognized authority in his language to keep us in awe, no authority to awe us.

而且通过“自然状态，或者通过战争状态，他意在说明一种状态,在他的说法里没有一个被认可的权力,将我们维持在敬畏中，没有权利使我们敬畏。

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After the fall of the republic and the return of the Medici to princely rule there, Machiavelli was exiled from the city, from politics to a small estate that he owned on the out skirts of the city.

共和国垮台之后,梅迪西,重新恢复君主政权，马奇亚维利遭到城市放逐，范围包括其政治权力,和他在城郊所拥有的一小块不动产。

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