In its place, a republic was re-established where Machiavelli occupied the office of secretary to the second chancery, a kind of diplomatic post which he held for 14 years from 1498 to 1512.

取而代之的是一个共和的重新建立,其中马奇亚维利,占据国务院及副总理职，一种类似外交官的职位,他在职，14，年，从，1498，年到，1512，年。

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But even then, that may not be enough."-- Because once you don't get tenure in one place, you don't go up in terms of the ranking of the school-- you very often would get tenure but elsewhere, school that is not considered as good as the one where you were rejected.

即使到了那时，可能也不够-,如果在一所学校无法获得终身职位，就没有可能在更高学府取得-,经常是在别的院校获得，那些比拒绝你的学院,差一等的院校。

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The board likes him; the CEO eventually retires CEO and they make this guy the CEO -the fraternity president we're talking about --CEO-- Now he's now the head guy--the CEO--and he'll bring in a number two guy that's a little dumber than he is because he doesn't want to be threatened.

董事会成员很喜欢他原来那个CEO在退休了,董事会成员就任命他为公司新一任的,-我们刚才一直说的那个学生会会长,现在他是公司的首脑了,他会提升一名比他更愚笨一些的直接下属,因为他不想自己的职位受到威胁。

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