So, the authority of the canon that he invokes to defend himself in fact suggests perhaps that he has some doubts? Yes.

因此，那些他用来维护他自己的大炮的权威,表明了他实际上是有怀疑的。

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Were Milton not to fight in some way to defend what he takes to be the true church, he would simply not be investing those talents that God had given him.

如果弥尔顿没有以某种方式,来维护他心中真正的教会，他就并没有在发挥上帝给予他的才能。

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It is the people who endow the sovereign with the authority to represent them on their behalf.

他认为，君主的权力是人民赋予给他的,让其代表广大的人民,并维护人民的利益。

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Eliot was there, in that essay on the metaphysical poets that I'm quoting from, defending as necessary what is the primary characteristic, not only of his own poetry, but really of modern poetry generally, what is often called its difficulty.

艾略特在描写那些抽象派诗人的文章里,就是我引用的那篇，极力维护,诗人的首要特征，不仅是因为他自身的诗性，更因为维护现代诗歌的必要，这是非常困难的一件事。

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And when somebody else then attacks them, say, "Look, I think that what John was saying was a good point and here's how I think he should have defended his position," or what have you.

并且当其他人攻击他们时，你说听着我觉得约翰说的是个好点子,和这是我认为他应该怎样维护自己的立场“,或者你有什么。

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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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Although Hobbes is widely taken to be a defender of monarchical absolutism, you will note, in your readings, that he displays a kind of studied neutrality over actually what form the sovereign should take.

尽管霍布斯被广泛地认为是,君主专制主义的维护者，但在阅读中你们会发现，他对国家应当采用何种政体,是保持中立姿态的。

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