There are certain laws such that, given that the computer's in this state, it must necessarily move in that state.

存在那样的某些定律,假定电脑处在这种状态,它一定会变为那种状态

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It can exist in - a gated ion channel - can exist in one or two states.

它们能够存在于,门控离子通道有一种或者两种状态

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Every time I try to picture myself being dead, I smuggle myself back in, conscious and existing as a person, hence, not dead as a person.

每次我想象自己的死亡时，就会将自己带入，有意识作为人而存在的状态，所以也就不再处于死亡了。

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Every creature, he says, has a built-in desire to preserve itself, to persevere in its own existence, to continue in its own steady state you might say, and to resist invasion or encroachment by others.

他说，任何一个生物都生而具有,保护自己的本能，保护自己的存在，延续自己稳定的状态，抵抗外界的侵犯。

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But even the Hobbesian state, Hobbes admits himself, the Hobbesian state lives in the midst of a Hobbesian world; that is to say, the world of international relations is for Hobbes simply the state of nature at large.

不过他也承认，这霍布斯式的国家只能存在于,霍布斯式的世界状态里，而在这样的世界状态中,国家关系只是放大了的自然关系。

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