The sense of powerlessness, the most profound sense of powerlessness, suggested already by the first episode where his mother almost takes back the life she gave him, is rooted in the family.

无能为力之感，极度的无能为力之感，在他母亲几乎,毁了他时就有过，这在他的家庭中深深地扎根。

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So I'm going to leave it on that note and on Wednesday we will begin the study of one of Machiavelli's greatest and most profound disciples in the modern world, a man by the name of Thomas Hobbes.

那么我就到此为止了，星期三的时候,我们将开始研讨现代社会中,马基雅维利的一位伟大而见解深刻的门徒,他的名字叫做托马斯霍布斯。

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He's the most famous psychologist ever and he's had a profound influence on the twentieth and twenty-first century.

他是史上最著名的心理学家,对20世纪与21世纪,的心理学界都有着深远的影响。

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Among the great thinkers there is profound disagreement over the answers to even the most fundamental questions concerning justice concerning rights concerning liberty.

伟大的思想家之间,对答案却总有着深刻的意见相左,甚至是对于最基本的问题,像是有关正义，权利和自由。

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