All laws are by definition just, he tells us, but it doesn't follow that all laws are by definition good.

所有的法律均是以公平和正义为界定的，但人们并不以此为据,而是以这部法律是“好“还是“不好“为界定。

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The sovereign does not exist by nature but rather, Hobbes tells us again, the sovereignty is the product of art or science.

霍布斯又告诉我们说,国家不是生来就有的，而主权也只是科学和艺术的产物罢了。

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But John Milton is also recompensed and, by the weird sacrificial logic that Saint Peter has already sketched out for us, you can see a really disturbing way in which Milton has benefited as well.

但是在圣彼得铺陈开来的诡异的牺牲逻辑下,弥尔顿也得到了回报，你会看到弥尔顿从中得益的方式,确实非常让人困惑。

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We know we need to divide by 266, 266 but what we need you to help us with is to figure out this top number here and see how many particles are going to backscatter. So if the TAs can come up and quickly hand out 1 particle to everyone.

知道背散射的概率就可以了，我们知道要除以,但还需要你们来搞清楚,分子上的数是多少，有多少个发生背散射的粒子,助教们请过来,把这些球分给同学们。

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Milton clearly wants us to know that this Nativity Ode was written by a young Londoner in 1629, but it's a poem that is at the same time deliverable to the infant Christ by some extraordinary violation, of course, of all of the established laws of temporal sequence.

显然弥尔顿想让我们了解这首《圣诞清晨歌》,是在1629由一位伦敦年轻人写的，但是它同时也是一首,通过非同寻常的方法能够交到圣婴手里的诗，当然这就需要他违反现有的一系列法律。

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The natural laws for Hobbes are not divine commands or ordinances, he says, but they are rules of practical reason figured out by us as the optimal means of securing our well-being.

对霍布斯来说，自然法不是神圣的法令,或者条例，但这些是,我们发现的实践理性的法则,就像一种最佳的方式保护我们的幸福生活。

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