They're studying practical things like marble work, and metal work, and copper work, and not just shipbuilding.

他们学习一些实用的东西,比如大理石打磨,金属冶炼和铜器制造,并且不仅仅是造船术

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Practical reason perhaps is a sense of what will work and what will not.

实际理由可能是,意不意识得到,哪种方式可行的差别。

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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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