他们认可权力，并知道如何使用权力。

They can recognize power and know how to use it.

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这让他们能够行使自己的权力，并让同事们认可他们是“优秀的”教师。

It allows them to exercise power and be recognized by their colleagues as being "outstanding" teachers.

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将钱作为权力和认可的一途径，相信财富可以使其快乐。

Tycoons see money as a route to power and approval, and believe wealth will make them happy.

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And by a "state of nature" he means, or by a state of war, he means a condition where there is no recognized authority in his language to keep us in awe, no authority to awe us.

而且通过“自然状态，或者通过战争状态，他意在说明一种状态,在他的说法里没有一个被认可的权力,将我们维持在敬畏中，没有权利使我们敬畏。

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