在现代社会里，我们习惯了我们觉得舒服的东西以致任何东西都可能对我们造成伤害或者甚至只是对我们造成不便，于是我们充满恐惧，需要保护。

In the modern world we are so used to our comforts that we are fearful of, and demand protection from, anything that might hurt us or even just inconvenience us.

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但是霍布斯认为，我们进入社会，不是为了实现或完善我们理智的本性，倒不如说是为了避免巨大的罪恶而已，也就是死亡或对死亡的恐惧，掌握在别人手里。

But for Hobbes, we enter into society not in order to fulfill or perfect our rational nature, but rather to avoid the greatest evil, namely death or fear of death, at the hands of others.

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他们热爱对物质的关注，而对道德和社会方面的关注有着本质性的恐惧。

They have an affinity for material concerns and a primordial fear of moral and social ones.

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