That is to say, the entire tissue, structure, and nature of our lives our lives are textual lives. That's what he meant.

也就是说，我们生命的整个组织，结构，和本质,我们的生活就是文本的生活，他指的就是这个。

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that human life is in some ways essentially different than other forms of life.

那就是人的生命从许多方面来说和其他形式的生命有本质的不同。

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Hobbes refers to the sovereign as a mortal god, as his answer to the problems of the state of nature, the state, the condition of life being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

君主就是生在凡间的神，霍布斯在回答,什么是国家的本质时这样比喻到，他的国家，他的生命都总是孤独，穷苦，下流，野蛮和短暂的。

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Given that we're going to die, this fact seeps back in and poisons the nature of life or perhaps poisons the nature of the whole, life followed by death, so that on balance the whole thing's negative.

已知我们会死，这个事实渗透到并使毒害生命的本质,或者也许毒害所有事的本质，生后即是死，所以总的来说，所有的事都是消极的。

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To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.

在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质，生后即是死，什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。

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