Cos many people sit here during the lectures on self-esteem, for example, or when we talk explicitly about happiness, ?" they say, "Wait. Do I have self-esteem?"-- Thinking to themselves.

因为很多人坐在这听有关自尊的讲座时，比如，或者当我们明确地讨论幸福时，他们说，“等等，我的自尊心强吗-,他们自己想到。

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Life for Hobbes is competition or struggle not just over scarce resources, although that might be part of the struggle, but for honors, for anything else that a person might value or esteem.

对霍布斯来说，生活是一次竞争或斗争,不是争夺稀缺的资源,虽然这也可能是斗争的一部分，而是为荣誉，为一个人的,价值和自尊而战。

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We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

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