He is not tall or handsome, and he is certainly not a prince.

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Things just don't happen the way they happen in nurse novels and bodice-rippers -in which somehow or another the pauper marries the prince.

现实生活中不会发生像,？护士小说和浪漫情欲小说中发生的那些事情,在那些情节中，穷姑娘莫名其妙地嫁给了王子。

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Machiavelli speaks of the prince, while Hobbes speaks of the sovereign, that is a kind of impersonal or in Hobbes' language, artificial power created out of a contract.

马基雅维利探讨君主，而霍布斯则探讨主权，这算是不受个人感情影响的，在霍布斯的说法里，君主的权力是由契约产生的。

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