He sets out to give a deliberately and thoroughly materialistic and non-teleological physics of human nature.

他阐明了一种,谨慎而彻底的唯物主义的,非目的论的人性的物理。

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From one point of view, reading Hobbes, his account of the state of nature seems to derive from his physics of motion and rest, in the opening chapters of Leviathan.

一方面，阅读霍布斯，他关于自然状态的解释似乎,来源于他关于运动和静止的物理学，这也在《利维坦》的开篇章节。

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More generally speaking, we might say, they're subject to deterministic laws... that, as physical objects, it's true of them that they must do what the laws of physics and laws of nature require that they do.

我们甚至可以这样说,它们受制于决定性的法则,即,作为物理实体,它们必须按照,物理定律和自然法则的要求去做

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