And any way, Hobbes, however, was deeply distressed by the outbreak of war, and he spent a great deal of time reflecting on the causes of war and political disorder.

无论如何，霍布斯对战争的爆发,感到深深地压抑，因此他花了大量的时间反思,战争爆发的原因和政治秩序。

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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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Plato himself, remember, made a number of trips to Sicily to serve as the advisor to a king there, Dionysius, and all of these missions failed and left him deeply dispirited.

记不记得柏拉图自己，曾多次旅行到西西里岛,从事国王顾问的工，Dionysius王，他所有的使命都未竟成功,并使他深深感到气馁。

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