II Only thin smoke without flame ; From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass.

只有没有火焰的烟,从茅草堆中冒出;,然而这还是会照样向前,即使朝代更迭。

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A Hobbesian state, paradoxically, still requires from its citizens, men and women prepared to fight to risk everything in the defense of their way of life.

如此一来，矛盾便凸显出来了,即霍布斯理想中的国家,也照样要求他的人民时刻准备牺牲一切,来维护他们的生活方式。

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