And so I said that the nations of the world will never cease from trouble until either the true breed of philosophers shall come to political office or until that of the rulers shall, by some divine law, " take the pursuit of philosophy."

所以我说,世界上的国家和种族永远不会停止纷争,直到正牌的哲学家,接管政权,或直到统治者都受某种神圣法律所辖，开始追求哲学“

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Rather they presuppose relations that is to say political relations not between lovers or even best friends of some kind but between civic partners who may in fact be intensely rivalrous and competitive with one another for positions of political office and honor.

相反地，他们假设的关系,确切地说是政治关系,并非介于爱人或甚至是最好朋友间的关系,而是介于公民伙伴间,他们可能处于,彼此紧张敌对或竞争的关系,以求争得政治官位或荣誉。

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If you are a political--If you are running for office, you will tend to have volunteers and not necessarily pay people.

如果你要竞选政府职位，你往往会招一些志愿者，不用付他们钱的人。

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But for Hobbes, Hobbes creates this office of a political called the sovereign.

霍布斯创造了这个职务,这个政治性的叫做“君主“的职务。

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