And Machiavelli wrote, of course, the dominant form of political organization was the empire or, to speak more precisely, the Christian empire.

当然马奇亚维利所写的，优势政治组织模式,是帝国，或更确切地说，是基督帝国。

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But you might say just as Machiavelli broke with the dominant model of Christian universalism, so too did he reject the ancient model of the small, autonomous republican state.

但各位也可读到,当马奇亚维利打破,处于优势之基督普遍主义模式的同时，他也拒绝了,古代模式的，小型自治共和国。

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