Moreover, beyond that, how does one know, in taking out an insurance policy, that the insurance company is going to be sound?

除此之外，在人们购买保险时，该如何得知保险公司，会严格按照保单言而守信呢？

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The political partnership he says must be regarded for the sake of noble acts performed well.

政治合作关系,如他所言,必需被视作是为了高尚的行为而妥善履行。

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What he means, for instance, in this case is well, talking to yourself is self-reinforcing or giving bad news to an enemy is reinforcing because it makes your enemy feel bad.

比如在这个例子中，他的意思其实是，自言自语是种自我强化行为,而向敌人散布坏消息也是一种强化,因为这样做可以使敌人感到不快。

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As Hanson says, thus arose the kleros, or the idea of a privately held plot attached not to any one person, but rather in perpetuity to a single farm family or oikos.

如汉森所言,kleros兴起了,或是说有了私有土地,而不再属于单个人的观念产生了,也可永久的属于单个的农业家庭或者领主

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There might be a little more of Nietzsche suggested in that, than Machiavelli, but I think the Machiavellian overtones are very evident.

这之中也许有更多尼采的成份,而非马奇亚维利，但我认为马奇亚维利式的言外之意,是非常明显的。

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