Hobbes regarded these passions in many ways as barbaric, as uncivilized and warlike and to some degree he was right.

霍布斯把这些人具有的品质称之为,野蛮的，未开化的和好战的,他的这一论断只有在一定意义上是正确的。

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But, to some degree, this captures some of the way in which Aristotle has been perceived over the centuries.

但在某种程度上，这捕捉了一些,几个世纪以来,人们对亚里士多德的观感。

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In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.

换言之，正如法官常说的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,当然我不认为，一句情有可原,就能为盗窃，谋杀以及其他违法行为正名，但有时，情有可原的程度,确实可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。

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And we all to some degree embody this quality in ourselves.

我们多少也都,体现了这种质量。

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We overlook, we conveniently overlook a number of facts about him, his hostility to democracy, we'll see that in the Republic but we've seen it already to some degree in the Apology.

我们忽略了,很轻易就忽略掉许多关于他的事实，他对民主的敌视，将在《理想国》中详读,但我们已能在《苏格拉底自辩篇》中,看出端倪。

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