III Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by: War's annals will fade into night Ere their story die.

那边一个女仆和她的同伴,走进来低语：,在故事结束前战争会没入夜色中。

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War is right at the center of it, and war itself requires political and social organization.

战争是故事的主题,战争就需要社会与政治的组织

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So the question for us remains, which deeply challenged readers in Hobbes' own time, what makes Hobbes' story, as I am calling it, his story about the state of nature ? being a condition of war, what makes it plausible?

所以我们的问题依然存在，这使霍布斯时代的读者感到深深的挑战，是什么使得霍布斯的故事，关于自然状态的故事,战争状态的故事，是什么使它真实合理？

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