So what is Astrix' appeal, "Maybe we identify with the imperial pretensions,"

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He says, "I dispute the pretensions of any theory which sets up an imaginary standard of justice not grounded on utility."

他说，我反对任何理论,不以功利为基础，虚构公正标准“

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Their professions to justice are just that, they are professions or pretensions expressing their vanity and their ambition.

他们在正义上的专业训练，只是他们的专业,或说自命表达其自负与野心。

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They will defend, quite vociferously, their privileges as townspeople against absolutist pretensions of nobles, in the case of the Netherlands and also, to an extent, in England as well.

他们奔走呼号,捍卫自己的权利,以城里人身份去反对贵族的专制野心,而在荷兰,某种程度上,同英国是一样的

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He's not over: "Zealous of their own liberties but trampling on those of others, generous, candid and without attachment or pretensions to any religion but that of their own heart."

他还没说完,"他们热爱自由,却肆意践踏他人的自由,他们慷慨,直率,崇尚自我,不沉迷于也不虚伪地信仰任何宗教"

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