The idea is that there is some state of being with God.

存在同上帝同在的想法。

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It's a pretty state of affairs, in his view, when the most rigorous thinking that's being done about literature is being done in popular journals.

他认为，关于文学的严肃的思考大多,被发表在流行杂志上很不妥当。

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Being happy, in other words, is also a moral state in the sense of actually contributing to other people's wellbeing.

感受快乐，换言之，也是一种道德状态,对他人的幸福作出贡献。

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The dial tone is that state of awareness of the divine that Buddy speaks of when he says- when he speaks of being with God before God said, "Let there be light."

拨号音是神学意识的体现,巴蒂曾提过，当他提到在上帝说,让光芒普照大地，这句话前就与上帝同在时说过“

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Hobbes refers to the sovereign as a mortal god, as his answer to the problems of the state of nature, the state, the condition of life being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

君主就是生在凡间的神，霍布斯在回答,什么是国家的本质时这样比喻到，他的国家，他的生命都总是孤独，穷苦，下流，野蛮和短暂的。

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Or on the other side, there's a debate about whether Mitt Romney can choose to be, I guess he's trying to choose himself to be on the right hand wing of the republic party, given he has a record of governance, as being governor of Massachusetts when he provided state healthcare for example.

或者在另一派,争论米特·罗姆尼是否会选择,我猜他试图选择作为,右派共和党,考虑到他的政绩,在他作为马萨诸塞州州长期间,他提供了的州卫生保健

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All right. Now this is a wonderful example of the tension between having expectations, the expectation that someone will help Tony, and being in a state of suspense, not knowing who it will be.

好的，这是个很好的例子，来说明二者之间的张力,一个是有期望，期望有人会帮助托尼，另一个是处于一种悬念状态，不知道会是谁来帮托尼。

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So the question for us remains, which deeply challenged readers in Hobbes' own time, what makes Hobbes' story, as I am calling it, his story about the state of nature ? being a condition of war, what makes it plausible?

所以我们的问题依然存在，这使霍布斯时代的读者感到深深的挑战，是什么使得霍布斯的故事，关于自然状态的故事,战争状态的故事，是什么使它真实合理？

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