But Hobbes lived at a time when the modern system of European states even as we understand them today, was just beginning to emerge.

霍布斯生活在一个时代,这个时代中，现代欧洲国家,就像我们今天理解的这样，已经快要出现了。

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In Europe, if you go to like, any country like France, maybe Spain,

在欧洲，如果你去，像法国这样的国家，也许是西班牙，

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American suburbs, many of you come from them-- Hillsborough, California; Darien, Connecticut; Grosse Pointe, Michigan; places like that. That's not what the suburbs are in Europe.

美国郊区,你们大部分都是从那来的,希尔斯伯勒,加州,达连,康涅狄格州,格罗斯波恩特,密歇根州,像这种地方,欧洲的郊区可不是这样

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Unlike the ancient near eastern cities, these towns do not grow up around a temple or a marketplace, confluence of rivers as they do in medieval Europe.

和古代近东的城市不同,这些城邦不以庙宇或集市为中心来扩展的,也不像中世纪的欧洲那样以河流交汇点为中心

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It's like a European city.

像个欧洲的城市。

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