来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代社会理论基础 第2集 第2集》

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  Whether Foundations of Modern Social Thought should start with
  这门课是否应该从霍布斯开始讲起
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  Hobbes or not, that's a question.
  至今仍是个问题
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  In some other courses I've taught,
  在其他课上
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  occasionally I started with Thomas Bacon;
  有时我会从托马斯·培根开始讲起
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  I will talk about him very briefly later on.
  以后我会简要介绍这个人
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  But in some ways arguably Thomas Hobbes is the first
  但在某些方面我们可以证明
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  who laid the foundations of modern social science.
  霍布斯最先奠定了现代社会科学的基础
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  He was a genuine scientist, and a formidable one,
  他是一个纯粹得令人敬畏的科学家
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  and an extremely controversial figure,
  也是极具争议的人物
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  addressing a number of very important issues.
  他致力于一系列重要问题的研究
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  We are all still very divided,
  人们至今对此仍有许多分歧
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  particularly on human nature.
  尤其在人性问题上