Now, he describes in pretty harsh and even grim terms what you can do to people who violate the law of nature.

他用很强硬甚至可怕的字眼描述,你可以怎样对待违反自然法的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

For all of his tough talk, Hobbes takes justice and the rule of law very seriously, far more seriously than, for example, does Machiavelli.

在他那些强硬的措辞中可看出,霍布斯对正义和法律的态度，始终是极为严谨的，比马基雅维利的态度要严谨得多。

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European governments have taken stronger action against genetically modified foods than is the case of the American government and there is a very interesting political history to this.

与美国政府相比,欧洲政府,实施了更强硬手段来,限制转基因食品,而这其中包含了有趣的政治历史问题

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He had to be a tough businessman to arrive where he is.

足够强硬的人才能达到他的位置

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So we finally got tough and we got Paul Volker in there and central banks around the world all managed to get tough around that time and we killed inflation but it created a recession.

所以，我们最终强硬地实施,并且将保罗？沃尔克作为主席,世界各地的中央银行,全都在那段时期内严格的实施,最终我们消除了通货膨胀，却制造了经济衰退。

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