The sovereign and, again, this is crucial, is for Hobbes, the representative of the people.

霍布斯还认为君主就是人民的代表，也是一个国家主权的象征。

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so that means that hidden in there is the idea that these people who are creating these statistics are costing us all a lot of money.

这里隐含的一个观点是,这些统计数据代表的人们,花费了国家大量的资金

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