So, it's--In a way, it decided when the fighting is going to take place up to a point.

这种情况,在一定程度上,决定了战争爆发的时间

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It's never--it probably wasn't quite that easy but the invading side goes for something that the other side will have to defend and that determines when the fighting takes place.

可能不会这么简单,但当入侵方为了某一目进行侵略,被侵方就不得不防守,这就决定了战争的爆发时间

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And any way, Hobbes, however, was deeply distressed by the outbreak of war, and he spent a great deal of time reflecting on the causes of war and political disorder.

无论如何，霍布斯对战争的爆发,感到深深地压抑，因此他花了大量的时间反思,战争爆发的原因和政治秩序。

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It is kind of haunting when you think it's only 1831 when he writes this, and that Civil War is still 30 years away: "Slavery brutalizes the black population and debilitates the white.

这段话在人们脑海中挥之不去,因为他写下这段话时才1831年,离开内战爆发还有30年时间,"奴隶制残害了黑人,也削弱了白人

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The trouble is, you just don't know when that explosion took place, and since there are several periods in this general area that we're talking about now, in which something big happened, some great change takes place, it turns out different people want to have their explosion at different times.

问题是,你不了解火山爆发的,确切时间以及这种爆发,在这个区域又延续了很多个时期,这些时期发生了许多重大事件和重大变化,结果就是不同人对,火山爆发的时间推测各不相同

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