It's as if his knowledge of his own conception, his own birth, his own babyhood, is a natural knowledge.

好像他很自然地知道自己是胚胎时的故事，知道自己如何出生以及自己的童年。

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Scholars tend to place great emphasis on the deliverance from Egypt as the high point in the Exodus narrative, rather than the more natural literary climax, which is the conclusion of the covenant at Mount Sinai, and the delivery of the Torah.

学者们想强调，从埃及拯救出来这一段,作为这个故事最精彩的部分，而不是自然的文学高潮,就是随后在西奈的契约，即交付《摩西五经》

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He tells a story about something he calls "the state of nature," a term he did not invent, but with which his name will always and forever be associated, the idea of the state of nature.

他讲了一个故事，叫做,“自然状态“，这不是他所发明的词，但他的名字,总是会，也永远会和，“自然状态“联系在一起。

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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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