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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  because he suggested that--
  因为他提出
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  in fact, they were engaged in a big debate on optics, what we do see.
  我们知道 事实上他们在光学上也有争论
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  And he, Hobbes, was advocating that there must be
  霍布斯主张一定存在真正的客体
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  a real object whose movement we see, what we actually can see.
  我们可以也确实能够看到它
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  So he rejected the dualism.
  他拒绝了二元论
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  And then he wrote--I mentioned very briefly--his trilogy:
  随后他写了他的哲学三部曲
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  De Corpore, this is about the human body,
  我只简要讲下 包括关于人体的《论物体》
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  De Homine, about man, and finally De Cive, about society.
  关于人的《论人》和关于社会的《论公民》
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  I see this as formidable
  这些都是非凡的著作
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  and something which appeals a great deal to social scientists today.
  而且到今天仍吸引着大量的社会科学家
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  To try to develop a theory of society which begins actually
  霍布斯试图建立这样一种社会理论
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  with biology, with biological processes,
  它以生物学和生物进程为前提