The reform of politics may not be within our power but the exercise of self-control always is.

政治改革,也许并非我们能力所及,但自控的练习却永远是想要参与政治改革的个体。

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indivisible sovereign power, Hobbes' insistence that the sovereign exercise complete control over the churches, over the university curricula, and over what books and opinions can be read and taught.

至于不可分割的君主权力，霍布斯坚持认为，君主可以,完全控制教会，控制大学的教学，控制什么书和思想,可以被阅读和传授。

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It turns out that in a lot of languages, C included, you the programmer knowing a bit about how the computer works and the language works, can exercise more fine-grained control.

结果在包括C语言的很多语言当中，你作为一个程序员懂得了一些计算机的工作方式,和语言的处理方式，可以更精确地控制运用它。

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How is this determined? And Hobbes makes clear that the sovereign is not invested with the authority to exercise a kind of absolute control over everything that people do.

它是怎么确定的呢,霍布斯阐释说,君主并非要用自己的权力,对人民做的所有事情都拥有绝对的控制。

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