Women, for example, living in places where they are oppressed are in general less happy than women living in free countries.

以女性为例，生活在压迫制度下的一般,没有生活在自由国家的女性快乐。

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So what does libertarianism say about the role of government or of the state?

自由主义对于政府或国家的角色,有什么看法呢？

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The first rule of any state is the rule that citizens are not free to set aside the rules, to choose among them which ones to obey and to disobey.

任何国家的第一条法规,永远是公民不能自由地逍遥法外，选择他们想要,服从与违抗的法规。

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Liberty means the absence of constraints or impediments to action.

现代自由意味着人们的行动,将免于他人的妨碍或是国家的强制约束。

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Yet, no man," Hobbes continues, "can thence infer that a particular man has more liberty or immunity from the service of the commonwealth there than in Constantinople, the city of the Caliphs, the Caliphate.

言归正传，霍布斯继续说道,没有人敢说英联邦的人民,因为比君士坦丁堡的人民,有更多的自由而免于为国家服役，后者是哈里发-伊斯兰教国家领袖-所在地。

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