But Hobbes lived at a time when the modern system of European states even as we understand them today, was just beginning to emerge.

霍布斯生活在一个时代,这个时代中，现代欧洲国家,就像我们今天理解的这样，已经快要出现了。

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but they're just so different and like, he was way ahead of his time, really.

但它们同中有异，他确实走在他所处的时代的前面。

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So defamiliarization, against the backdrop of a kind of gray uniformity that Jakobson in his essay on byt "The Generation that Squandered its Poets" called "byt"-- I don't know how to pronounce that.

陌生化所针对的，灰色一致性,正如雅各布森在他的论文,浪费诗人的时代中提到的，称为-,我不知道这个词怎么发音。

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And you see this, going back to Socrates, there's a dialogue, the Gorgias, in which one of Socrates' friends, Callicles, tries to talk him out of philosophizing.

追溯到苏格拉底时代，就有这样一段对话，在《高尔吉亚篇》中，苏格拉底的一位朋友，卡里克利斯，试图说服苏格拉底放弃哲学思考。

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Another thing that is interesting is that when you look at the burials of Greeks in the post-Mycenaean period, in the Dark Ages, there's nothing resembling those grand tombs and the wealth that's buried in them for the dead.

还有件很有趣的事,就是在黑暗时代迈锡尼后期,君主的陵墓中没有与其身份相称的陪葬品,没有为来生准备的金银财宝

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