It's as if they might have maintained their beauty had they only refrained from it.

好像她们避免政治,就能永葆美丽似的。

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No one can impose their claim of revealed knowledge on another. Does this make Hobbes an atheist, ? as many would have maintained in his day? No.

没人可以把他们声称启示的知识强加于别人,这说明霍布斯是一个无神论者，就像他那个时代很多人一样。

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