"This is a condition that does not take holidays at all."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Every polity seeks its own advantage against others, making relations between states a condition of unremitting war of all against all.

每一个政体都在追寻自身的利益,而非他者，国家间的联盟,是一种全面战争的条件，持续性的永恒对抗。

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And yet, in many ways, Socrates diagnoses very powerfully an important condition of modern democratic life with which we are all familiar.

但在很多方面，苏格拉底却也诊断了,非常有力且重要的,现在民主生活条件,那是我们都很熟悉的。

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This is the doom which Adam fell into, ; this is the fallen condition to which we've all been consigned; but the passage is so much more complicated than that because good and evil seem to have been mixed up in the apple before the Fall.

这就是亚当掉进的命运，这就是我们都被丢弃到的掉落的环境;,但这段比善恶在秋天前就被混在苹果里了,更复杂。

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It's all about market forces and the health and the condition of your product.

所有这一切都取决于市场的需求,以及你的产品的状况和健康情况

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To me that seems an accurate description of the human condition that is meaningful, not only for the Greeks and their heirs in the West, but for all human beings.

在我看来,这些对于人类情况的描述是,准确而意味深长的,不仅对希腊人和西方人,而是全人类

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And the fact that relations in the state of nature it's synonymous with making it a condition of war, of "all against all," in his famous formulation.

自然状态中的关系对他来说,与战争中抗一切人的状态同义，他在著名的构想中如是说。

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Maybe we can say, we could say or Hobbes could say, that laying down our right to do all things in seeking peace with others is the rational thing to do in the condition of nature.

我们可以说，或者霍布斯可以说，放弃我们和别人,一起寻求和平的权利,在自然状态下是一个理性的举动。

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Not only should one seek peace but we have an obligation, he says, to lay down our arms, to lay down our right to all things on the condition that others around us are prepared to do so as well.

我们不仅是应该寻求和平,还有义务来放下自己的武器，在周围的人准备同样作的情况之下,放弃我们对一切事物的权利。

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This is again the sort of existential condition in which Hobbes wants to put us in the state of nature and all the benefits he lists there, he enumerates, that are denied to us in such a condition, again no knowledge, no geography, no cultivation of the earth, no navigation or building.

这也是霍布斯,把我们置于自然状态,和他列举的益处的,现存状态中，在这种状态中,否认知识，地理，土地栽培，航海和舒适建筑的存在。

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Now, you might look at that formulation, the state of war is one against--of all against all and you might say that such a condition of civil war, of maximum insecurity, of the total breakdown of condition of rules and laws is if anything the state of the exception.

现在，你可以看一下那个构想，抗一切人的状态,你可能会说这种,内战，最大安全感，法律规范全面崩溃的状态,实质上是一种异常状态。

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