似乎没有什么能满足他们对真理的渴求。

Nothing seemed to satisfy their hunger for truth.

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The addiction to alcohol is in a sense replaced by an addiction to knowledge.

从另一层面来讲,对知识的渴求这时征服了酒瘾。

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It's just historicizing otherness in a way that somehow or another satisfies my quest for information.

只是给相异性赋予历史意义,它满足了我对知识的渴求。

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So, the modern state, as we know it and still have it, in many ways grew out of the Hobbesian desire for security and the fear of death that can only be achieved at the expense of the desire for honor and glory.

所以我们知道的现代国家的建立,正如霍布斯所论,是人们对安全的渴求而导致的,只要一个人仍对荣誉有着强烈的渴求,他就永远不会对死亡产生恐惧。

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