But then, it seems that property, what counts as property is not natural but conventional defined by the government.

但然后，他的意思似乎是如何界定财产权,不是与生俱来而是约定俗成的，是由政府定义的。

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The kinds of authority established by the bogeys of tradition and custom and conservative tradition are not always distinguishable from the kinds of authority that are based on genuine strength.

由约定俗成的习俗的幻象以及,保守的传统建立的权威,和建立在真实力量上权威难以分辨。

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We have the convention of music of writing this symbol indicating the beat-carrying unit of four so I'm writing a four underneath each of these.

我们有一个约定俗成的书写格式,来表示四拍一单元,所以我在每行这里的下面写上一个四

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Buthere is the conventional aspect of property, it's a further question what counts as property, how it's defined and what counts as taking property, and that's up to the government.

但财产还有约定俗成的一面，就引出了更进一步的问题,什么才算财产，财产如何定义,且何种行为才算掠夺财产，这是由政府决定的。

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That is a matter of convention.

那是约定俗成的

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Here's the line that Homer writes, they live without the Greek word is nomoi, which we would translate as laws, but before they become laws they are the customary norms of society, in other words, civilization.

荷马有如下描写,他们的的生活脱离于nomoi,我们可以将其翻译为法律,但是在这些成为法律之前,它们是社会约定俗成的标准,换言之,就是文明

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Satan's saying that before the war in heaven, God's power just seemed like any other king's power, as if God sat on the throne of heaven merely because of those humanly constructed reasons of tradition, or of old repute or consent or custom.

撒旦是说在这场天上的大战之前，上帝的力量就和其他国王的力量一样，他坐在天堂的宝座上似乎仅仅是因为,人们自己营造的原因和传统，或者说是他过期的声望，他制定的法规以及约定俗成的规矩。

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Property is natural in one sense but conventional in another.

财产既是自然权利，但也有约定俗成的一面。

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If the right to private property is natural, not conventional, if it's something that we acquire even before we agree to government, How does that right constrain what a legitimate government can do?

如果私有财产是与生俱来的，而非约定俗成，如果这是在我们同意组建政府前就拥有的，这个权利又如何能限制合法政府的行为呢？

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If you drop the arrow, it's the usual convention, if you're talking about the length of the vector A.

如果你把箭头去掉,就表示矢量 A 的模长,这是约定俗成的

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Even if we locate a source of some kind of genuine strength, authoritative strength, it's still usually possible, as it is for Satan, to argue that that power is really at base just the concealed product of custom or what we would think of as cultural construction.

有时即使我们找到了一种真实的，权威的力量，还是有可能像撒旦所辩解的那样，这种力量其实只是,约定俗成的规矩教条的隐秘产物,或者如我们所想来自文化建构。

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