I will then judge and then the winner will win some small prize, either of a literary or a food nature.

我来评谁胜出,胜出者有一个小奖品，可能是书，也可能是吃的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now, one might expect that the author of a book entitled The Prince would favor the great, would favor the grandi, those who desire to rule.

现在，人们可能会预料写下了《君主论》这书,的作者，一定倾向于支持强势者，支持大人物，也就是那些有支配欲望的人。

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I don't know the philology side, I don't know what disables to metaphysical questions.

我不知道者从语言学上来说对不对，我也不懂从形而上学角度看,有什么问题。

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But he also obviously writes that we are beings with will and purpose who are uniquely guided by opinions, ideas, and doctrines and it is in many ways the first business of the sovereign to act as a moral reformer of ideas.

但他同时也写道,我们是有意志和目标的生物,是唯一由言论，思想和各种学说，所引导的物种,而这正是给君主作为思想道德改造者,的存在提供了可能性。

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