It is a condition for Hobbes of maximum insecurity where in his famous formula " "life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

对霍布斯来说，这是一种使安全感最大化的状态,这种安全感在他有名的公式中被表述,“生命是孤独的，贫穷的，肮脏的，残忍的，短暂的“

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You can't fight as a hoplite, in other words, unless you can afford to pay for your equipment and that excludes a goodly number of citizens who are too poor to fight in the phalanx.

换句话说,你不能加入步兵方阵,除非你自己能出钱买装备,这样有相当多的公民,会因为贫穷无法在方阵中战斗

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