Now, his language in that sentence that I just read from the introduction, "For by art", again, "is created that great Leviathan called a commonwealth or a state."

他在那句话里的说话,在引言里，我刚刚读过，号称“国民的整体“或“国家“的这个庞然大物,是用艺术造成的“

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Through art, again, is created the great Leviathan.

正是艺术，创造了伟大的“利维坦。

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The simile is there ostensibly to compare Satan with the great sea beast, leviathan. In the comparison of Satan's shield with the moon is the figure of the Tuscan artist, the Tuscan artist being Galileo.

这个明喻很明显是将撒旦和凶猛的海中野兽利维坦，进行了对比，在把撒旦的庇护和月亮的比较之中,突出了那个托斯卡纳艺术家的形象，伽利略。

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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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