For by art", he says in the introduction, "For by art is created that great Leviathan called a commonwealth or a state, " which is but an artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural for whose protection and defense it was intended."

他在引言中说，因为号称国民的整体或国家这个庞然大物,“利维坦“是用艺术造成的，它只是一个“人造的人，虽然它远比自然人身高力大,而是以保护自然人为目的“

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The sovereign, he says, or Leviathan, this great artificial man, the sovereign is something more like what we would call today an office, rather than a person, as when we speak of the executive as an office.

他说，君主，或者“利维坦，这个人造的人，君主更像是,我们今天称之的“职务“，而不是一个人，就像我们说某个职务的执行官一样。

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