I mean, in many ways, to be sure, Hobbes was a product of his time, ? and what else could he be?

在很多方面看来，确实，霍布斯是他那个时代的产物，他还能是什么呢？

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But cutting is something fearful and forceful; it's a kind of controlled violence. Frost takes it for granted that we will remember that the scythe is a conventional image for time, which harvests all of us in death.

但是割草是很有力的也是很可怕的;,这是一种控制中的蛮力，弗罗斯特认为,我们将把镰刀作为时代的产物记住，镰刀一直收获直到我们死去。

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