And I think more than that, you may not remember, there was an absolute, unqualified and spontaneous standing ovation for what Mr.Mandela said.

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This kind of tension doesn't make things clear; the rules are not absolute, and not everybody fits into a pigeon hole.

这种紧张的冲突并不能让万事柳暗花明,因为事事无绝对,并不是每个人都能一个萝卜一个坑

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Part of this reconstructing of national identity often has as much to do with who you're not, not absolute, not Catholic, not French as it does with you who imagine yourself to be.

对国家认同感的重建,一定程度上基于你不是什么,即不是独裁者,不是天主教,不是法国人,这点和自身定位同样至关重要

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Will not even philosophers, one might ask, given the possibility of absolute power ? be tempted to abuse their positions?

难道哲学家，有人可能问到，如果他们拥有绝对的力量时,难道不会想要滥用职权吗？

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They're not wholly good, not wholly evil, and no one god's will is absolute.

他们不是完全的善良，也不是完全的邪恶，也没有一个神灵的意愿是绝对的。

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Now it's not that Gadamer is insisting on absolute continuity.

现在不是葛达玛在坚持绝对的连续性。

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I'm not free to take my own life or to sell my self into slavery or to give to somebody else arbitrary absolute power over me.

不能随意自杀,或出售自己成为奴隶,或给别人绝对权力，任意主宰我。

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And when we talk about size, I'm again just going to say the stipulation we're not talking about an absolute classical concept here, but in general we're going to picture it being much further away from the nucleus as we move up in terms of n.

当我们说到尺寸时，我们只是说――,经典的绝对的概念，而是它大约,离原子核有多远。

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They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.

他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德，而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在，他的意愿不仅是绝对的，而且是绝对正确和道德的。

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So, they make their personal or dynastic rule absolute based on loyalty to them as individuals and not to the state as some sort of abstraction.

所以,君主将个人或者王朝的绝对统治,建立在［民众］对其统治家族的忠诚,而非国家这样的抽象概念上

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

How is this determined? And Hobbes makes clear that the sovereign is not invested with the authority to exercise a kind of absolute control over everything that people do.

它是怎么确定的呢,霍布斯阐释说,君主并非要用自己的权力,对人民做的所有事情都拥有绝对的控制。

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This is a point we'll come back to, particularly when we're talking about the two most important states, two of the great powers of the period that did not have absolute rule.

这一点我们后面会详细讲,特别是当我们谈到最重要的两个,没有建立绝对统治的强国的时候

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He creates committees of advisors that, in many ways, are not that different than the kinds of ministries that would evolve in western absolute rulers-- absolute states, and in non-absolute states as well.

彼得大帝建立了顾问委员会,在很多方面,这都和西方绝对统治者的内阁相差无几,无论是绝对主义国家还是非绝对主义国家

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Now, out of all of this, again to repeat, we are not making the argument that the Thirty Years' War itself led to absolute rule, that the growth of state structures can be seen in the beginning and the late medieval period with the consolidation of these territorial monarchies.

综上所述,我再重复一遍,我们并不能推断说,三十年战争本身导致了绝对主义的发展,国家的构建在中世纪的早期,以及晚期的领土兼并中就已经初见端倪

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And to try to explain why it was that absolute rule came to europe at the time it did, one has to not only look at the particular structures of states, but one has to look at the overview and the sheer horror of it all.

要解释为什么绝对主义在这个时候遍行于欧洲,我们不仅要着眼于各国特有的社会结构,还要纵观全局,了解当时社会上的恐慌

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