So, Hobbes clearly believes or thinks that this will be a useful book for a sovereign to read and hoping it will gain the ear of a sympathetic sovereign or potential sovereign.

很明显，霍布斯认为,这对君王将是本很有用的书,并真心希望它能得到一些富有同情心的君王,或是即将接任的君王的欣赏。

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Or there may be positions that I mention, but I don't develop, because I'm not perhaps sympathetic to them, and you might find somebody who is sympathetic to them, developing them in the readings.

或者有时我提到了，但我不展开讲，因为我或许和那些内容无法产生共鸣，而你在阅读中可能会发现,有些人可以与它们产生共鸣，并在书中对它们进行展开讨论。

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I actually want to change that around, if I might, and play with that, because that's a really useful image for us: "takes the mask off literature and reminds us how we come to be sympathetic or Richard Wright how we come to think something." Think back to Richard Wright, who wants words to disappear, to be completely transparent and to leave you just with your response.

实际上，我想要改变一点，可能的话，玩弄一下，因为那对我们是很有用的画面：,把文学的面具卸下,我们是如何同情,或思考事物的，回想一下，他希望文字消失，而变成透明的，只剩下你们的回应。

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