These political clubs or parties use their influence to incense the populous using their power to whip up dangerous passions that tend to make American politicians closer to demagogues than to statesmen.

用他们的权力激怒群众,用他们的权力激起危险的热情,致使美国政治家,趋近于蛊惑民心的政客,而非政治家。

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But in citing the power of what she claims to be this Puritan bogey, Virginia Woolf really suddenly reveals, I think, how difficult it is even for her to shut out entirely the real -or it might just be the bogus--power of John Milton.

但是通过指出这她称之为清教徒式的妖言的力量，佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫的确突然间向人们展示了，我想，即使是她，想要完全抵御弥尔顿的切实存在的力量,-也有可能仅仅是蛊惑人的妖言--是非常困难的。

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