So, people like Hobbes thought, "Well, we need a really strong state."

同意霍布斯观点的人认为,"我们需要一个十分强大的国家"

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So strong and far reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state may do.

这些权利如此强大，如此深远,以至引发一个问题，如果有的话，政府可以做什么。

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He believed in a strong central state, which was a real departure for him from the rest of the pro-slavery writers.

他坚信有个强大的中央政府,在亲奴主义作家中,他的理论着实是个大飞跃

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For the Left, it was a sign that the state is strong, powerful, and can be vicious.

左派看来,它标志着国家是强大有力的,同时也可能是邪恶的

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And,even though it's decentralized, it does not mean that the State is not strong, and that the State will not be making decisions that will affect the lives of ordinary people.

而尽管进行了去中央集权化,但并不代表国家不强,或者国家做不了,影响普通人生活的决定

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