Consider just the following passage from Leviathan with one of my favorite titles from the book, a chapter called "Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy " and Fabulous Traditions."

只需想想《利维坦》中如下的段落,它有一个我很喜欢的标题，这一章叫做,“空虚的哲学和神怪的传说,所造成的黑暗“

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Hobbes may, I think, overestimate or maybe I really should say underestimate the difficulty of the book but he returns to this again at the very end of Leviathan.

我认为霍布斯高估了自己,或者准确地说是他低估了现实的困境,所以他在《利维坦》结尾部分,再次回到了这个问题上。

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Hobbes returned to England the same year of the book's publication, and spent most of the rest of his long life, Leviathan was written well into his 60s.

霍布斯回到了英国,在他书出版的那年，他度过了他剩下的漫长的时光，《利维坦》在他60多岁的时候写成。

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It is most of all pride that Hobbes wants to tame and of course the very title of his book, Leviathan, ? he tell us later on comes from what?

霍布斯想要控制几乎所有的傲骄,和这本书的题目《利维坦》,他后来给我们说的出自哪里？

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Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan, where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement about his intention in writing this book.

细想以下这一位思想家，我将朗读一小段文章,然后在学期后段,再回到这个主题来，这是取自贺伯斯的《利维坦》,第，31，章，贺伯斯提供了十分贴切的陈述,关于他撰写本书的动机。

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