William Alexander says that's the message he hopes readers will take away from his books.

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However, and this is what I want to emphasize throughout our reading of Hobbes, he has always been something of a paradox to his readers.

然而，在阅读霍布斯的著作时,我想强调的是，对于他的读者来说,他一直是一种悖论。

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It's not until Book Three of Paradise Lost that the poet explicitly reveals to us, to his readers, the fact of the physical handicap that might reasonably be thought to render impossible his composition of the poem.

直到失乐园第三卷,诗人才明确告诉读者们，自己失明的事实,这可能被合理的认为是他无法完成诗歌创作的原因。

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So the question for us remains, which deeply challenged readers in Hobbes' own time, what makes Hobbes' story, as I am calling it, his story about the state of nature ? being a condition of war, what makes it plausible?

所以我们的问题依然存在，这使霍布斯时代的读者感到深深的挑战，是什么使得霍布斯的故事，关于自然状态的故事,战争状态的故事，是什么使它真实合理？

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Milton is much more likely imagined to wield - and if you have any sense of what the mythology surrounding Milton is, you would have to agree with this - a socially conservative power over his readers.

现在，大家更可能认为弥尔顿,-如果你对弥尔顿时代的神学有点了解的话，你就会同意这一点,-大家认为弥尔顿向读者传达的是社会保守思潮。

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He's the friend of women everywhere, at least for a few of his female readers in the eighteenth century, and for many he's the very embodiment of oppressive patriarchy.

他到处都有女人缘，至少在18世纪他有不少女性读者，但对很多人来说他是压抑的男权主义的象征。

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Now when Virginia Woolf writes that Milton's bogey has shut out the view of his female readers, she seems to be suggesting that the specter of Milton blinds women to the things that they should be seeing, the most important truths out there in the world.

当佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫写道弥尔顿的惑众谣言遮挡了,她的女性读者的目光时，她似乎是在说,弥尔顿的幽灵让女性对她们应该看到的,东西视而不见，这些东西正是世间最重要的真理。

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