Hobbes insists on the fundamental equality of human beings, who he says are endowed with certain natural and inalienable rights.

霍布斯认为，人类应该是,基本平等的，他认为人类天生就被赋予了,一些自然和不可剥夺的权利。

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He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions.

他们天生就不平等,更不能通过世俗的法律与制度获取平等

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They will convert it they'll take portions of John Locke that they like, and not the others and they'll say the real rule of the world is not natural equality, but it is natural inequality.

他们会转变它,他们接受约翰·洛克理论的一部分观点,排斥他们不喜欢的,而且他们说真正的世界法则,不是天生平等,而是天生不平等的

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But as many of you know, and certainly you will find out here, they had pretty clear ideas of who ought to have those individual liberties and who would not, who indeed were born equal and who were not.

但是正如你们许多人知道的,当然你们在这里也会发现,他们非常清楚,谁该拥有这种个人自由,而谁不该,哪些人天生就是平等的,而哪些人不是

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