原来利维说的是比喻。

It turns out Levy is talking in metaphorical terms.

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“1级铁路已经建成，能为顾客提供更大的灵活性，”利维说。

"The Class 1 railroads have been building out to be more flexible for the customers, " says Levy.

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“如果一个家里的人可以保持平衡的关系，一个外来的人也许会是个威胁。”利维说。

"If a family does not have its footing, its equilibrium, an outsider can be perceived as a threat," Levy said.

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It is most of all pride that Hobbes wants to tame and of course the very title of his book, Leviathan, ? he tell us later on comes from what?

霍布斯想要控制几乎所有的傲骄,和这本书的题目《利维坦》,他后来给我们说的出自哪里？

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The sovereign, he says, or Leviathan, this great artificial man, the sovereign is something more like what we would call today an office, rather than a person, as when we speak of the executive as an office.

他说，君主，或者“利维坦，这个人造的人，君主更像是,我们今天称之的“职务“，而不是一个人，就像我们说某个职务的执行官一样。

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