And that brings me to my final point about our Hobbesian civilization that conceals from us a very uncomfortable truth.

接下来我要讲的,是霍布斯现代文明观的最后一个观点,它将把一个残酷的现实呈现在我们面前。

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Truth always creeps through all of our language it doesn't always but sometimes creeps through our language, doesn't it?

真相往往隐藏在我们所说的每一句话里,不是经常也是偶尔,隐藏在我们的话语中,不是吗

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One has roommates, one has parents, in our own day and age, who of course share such a belief in the absolute singularity of the truth.

一个人在自己的岁月和日子里，有室友有父母,他们当然共享一个自己的真理信念。

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It's likewise, I think, part of our pleasure in this crazy world of disparate and it's part of our pleasure to read, to sort out, and to reassemble the various manifestations of truth.

这就像我们在这个疯狂的世界中享受,不同的令人困惑的真理一样,这是我们享受的一部分，去阅读去挑选，去重新集合不同的真理的表达。

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