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This Is our condition for spontaneous change.

这就是自发变化的条件。

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And the motivation for choosing a pair like that is easy to see, if we look at our condition for spontaneous change or general condition.

我们这样选择的动机,很明显，如果考察我们所考虑的自发变化的条件,或者更一般的条件。

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The condition of our whole existence is but to struggle with evil, to compare them, to choose between them, evils that is, and so far as we can to mitigate them.

我们整个生活状况,就是在与邪恶相斗争中,不断地比较和选择,然后决定什么是邪恶,这样我们才能消除邪恶

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Maybe we can say, we could say or Hobbes could say, that laying down our right to do all things in seeking peace with others is the rational thing to do in the condition of nature.

我们可以说，或者霍布斯可以说，放弃我们和别人,一起寻求和平的权利,在自然状态下是一个理性的举动。

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There's our condition for equilibrium at constant temperature and pressure.

这就是我们在,恒定温度和压强下的平衡条件。

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So, there's our condition for equilibrium.

然后，这里是我们的平衡条件。

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That's our condition for spontaneous change.

这就是自发变化的条件。

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Not only should one seek peace but we have an obligation, he says, to lay down our arms, to lay down our right to all things on the condition that others around us are prepared to do so as well.

我们不仅是应该寻求和平,还有义务来放下自己的武器，在周围的人准备同样作的情况之下,放弃我们对一切事物的权利。

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