In his 2,200-word retirement request General Sarath Fonseka says he was misled about his promotion this year to chief of defense staff, finding that he had "basically no authority."

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He could not punish me now without risking his authority.

否则他无法惩罚我。

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And sometimes had them killed if he had to if he thought that's what he should do, because there wasn't any sort of challenge to his authority.

如果有必要,他甚至会杀掉那些碍事的议员,因为没有什么可以挑战他的权威

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Or, if you don't believe Spinoza, if you don't believe his authority is sufficient, consider someone who you'll be reading in a couple of weeks, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from the Social Contract.

或者，假如你不相信斯宾诺莎，假如你不信,他的权威性，那么想一想几星期之后,你们将要读到的一个人，让·雅克·卢梭，在《社会契约论》中。

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But why did they permit him to carry on his practice of challenging the law and ? the authority of the law for as long as they did?

而是，为何他们一再容许他,挑战法律及法律权威,达这么长一段时间？

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And by a "state of nature" he means, or by a state of war, he means a condition where there is no recognized authority in his language to keep us in awe, no authority to awe us.

而且通过“自然状态，或者通过战争状态，他意在说明一种状态,在他的说法里没有一个被认可的权力,将我们维持在敬畏中，没有权利使我们敬畏。

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It is the philosopher's reliance on his own reason that frees him from the dangerous authority of the state and safeguards the individual from complicity in the injustice and evils that seem to be a necessary part of political life.

哲学家信赖自己的理智,因为那使他远离,危险的国家权威,并守护个体,不与不义及邪恶合流,那似乎已成政治生活的必备部份。

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