The difficulty with reading Machiavelli today is that we all think we already know what he knows and that is false.

今日阅读马奇亚维利的困难点,在于我们都认为我们早已知道,他所知道的东西，但那并不正确。

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So each respectively, this is sorted 1 and 2 respectively 4 and 5, this is sorted but clearly they are not in the right order.

分别地，1磅和2磅的是有序的，同样4,4磅和5磅的也是有序的,但显然它们的顺序并不正确。

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That doesn't mean that consensus is correct.

但这并不意味着这个统一的观点是正确的

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And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.

许多场合下总统，都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。

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