Now a five-page paper is very different from an eight-page paper if you're actually thinking about the words you choose and how you write it.

一篇五页的论文,如果你真正考究用词和写法,和一篇八页的论文是截然不同的。

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What is significant about this, I think, is the priority that Hobbes gives to rights over duties.

这个观点中值得我们考究的一点是，霍布斯认为权力,应当优先于义务。

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Well again, I can say the words, but when I try to imagine that possibility and take it seriously, at least speaking personally, it doesn't--it doesn't hold up.

我能说出这种假设，但当我想象那种可能性,并严肃考究时，起码就我而言，它也站不住脚。

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