So the nature of the world, post-cold war world is increasingly one about competition for markets, govern of one nation's markets.

因此冷战之后，市场的竞争,成为世界的主题，一国市场的管理，如果事实如此。

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If God created the world, and set nature into motion, and in what way is God responsible or irresponsible.

如果上帝创造了世界，让自然开始运转，那么上帝对什么有责任，又对什么没有责任呢？

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So the world isn't essentially good in its nature or essentially bad.

因此世界在本质上并没有好坏差别。

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We know it's an illusion, but we get to live in it so comfortably with so little alteration of the nature of the illusion or of the way in which we negotiate the illusory world, that it becomes kind of womb-like and cozy.

我们知道那是幻觉，但是我们活在其中，如此舒适地,基本不去改变幻觉的本质,也不改变我们在这个幻境中生活的方式，它变得如子宫般安全舒适。

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States stand to one another on the world stage as individuals do in the condition of nature; that is to say, potential enemies with no higher authority by which to adjudicate their conflicts.

国家相对于世界的关系,就好比人相对于自然的关系;,也就是说,在冲突面前不会有更高的权威,来裁定谁对谁错，只能弱肉强食。

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So, to summarize, in Genesis 1, The view of god is that there is one supreme god, who is creator and sovereign of the world, who simply exists, who appears to be incorporeal, And for whom the realm of nature is separate and subservient.

那么，我们来总结《创世纪》第一章，对上帝的认识是只有一个无上的上帝，他就是世界的创造者和主宰者，是毋庸置疑的存在，他看起来无形无体，对于他来说，自然界是分隔的从属的。

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But even the Hobbesian state, Hobbes admits himself, the Hobbesian state lives in the midst of a Hobbesian world; that is to say, the world of international relations is for Hobbes simply the state of nature at large.

不过他也承认，这霍布斯式的国家只能存在于,霍布斯式的世界状态里，而在这样的世界状态中,国家关系只是放大了的自然关系。

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