In other words, in his propaganda, Augustus basically said, "I'm not a king, I'm just another senator, and I'm giving the Senate and the people all their power back."

换句话说，在奥古斯都的宣传中，他声称“我不是国王，我只是普通元老院议员，我将权力交还元老院及人民手中“

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So why not take president Obama at his words, and simply impute the motives that he claims?

所以为何不相信奥巴马的言论，相信事实就如他所说的一样呢？

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Well, Freud pretty quickly figures out that what little Hans is doing is finding a way of expressing his frustration about the way in which his mother leaves the room; in other words, his mother is not always there for him.

弗洛伊德很快就发现小汉斯其实是在,找另一种方法,来表达自己对妈妈离开房间,的种种不满;,换句话说，他妈妈并不能时时刻刻陪着他。

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Socrates does not care about the same thing his fellow citizens care about. His opening words to the jury seem to convey this "I " he says "am simply foreign " to the manner of speech here."

苏格拉底不关心他的同胞,公民所关心的事，他对陪审团的公开表述,似乎传达了这点,他说：“我对这里的演说习惯,完全陌生“

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Does he not therefore as much accuse mankind by ?" his action as I do by my words?" You can see the mischievousness of Hobbes in that delightful passage. What about you, he says, and this is not in some kind of state of nature.

他在这些地方用行动攻击人类的程度,不正和我用文字攻击的程度相同吗,你们可以看出霍布斯在这一精彩段落里,的一丝顽皮，他说，你们怎么看呢，这和自然状态不同。

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