例如，在美索不达米亚的故事中，神肆意妄为，凭着一时的念头做事。

In the Mesopotamian stories, for example, the gods act capriciously, the gods act on a whim.

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那时，亚兰王哈薛上来攻打迦特，攻取了，就定意上来攻打耶路撒冷。

About this time Hazael king of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.

youdao

这些事完了，保罗心里定意，经过了马其顿，亚该亚就往耶路撒冷去，又说，我到了那里以后，也必须往罗马去看看。

21after all this had happened, Paul decided to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. "After I have been there," he said, "I must visit Rome also."

youdao

There might be a little more of Nietzsche suggested in that, than Machiavelli, but I think the Machiavellian overtones are very evident.

这之中也许有更多尼采的成份,而非马奇亚维利，但我认为马奇亚维利式的言外之意,是非常明显的。

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