Hobbes was born in 1588, the year that the English naval forces drove back the invasion of the famous Spanish Armada.

霍布斯出生在1588年，这一年也是英国海军,击退著名的西班牙无敌舰队的一年。

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We may not accept their answers and it's very likely that we do not but their questions are often put with a kind of unrivaled clarity and insight.

我们可能不接受他们的解答,我们可能接受才怪,但他们的问题常隐含一种,无敌的清晰与独到见解。

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In the case of Nimes, N-I-M-E-S, which was largely a Protestant town, they knocked down the wall so the Protestants of Nimes could not defend themselves against this all-conquering Catholic monarch.

以尼姆为例,那儿曾经是一座新教徒的城市,但统治者们拆毁了围墙,所以新教徒们再也无法对抗,所向无敌的天主教统治者了

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But anyway, the confederate that they hired was a woman who was naturally attractive in most people's view but they made her look either more attractive or less attractive by giving her kind of frumpy clothes, bad make-up, and a frizzy wig.

不管怎么说，他们请的这个助手,在大多数人眼中亭亭玉立,他们可以把她包装得更漂亮,或打扮成丑女无敌,让她穿些邋遢的衣服，失败的妆容还带上卷曲的假发。

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