His discovery of Mencken using words as weapons in a political sense is a very powerful moment for him in his intellectual development.

门肯在政治领域以唇当剑,的艺术让他受益非浅,这种主动进取。

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What most distinguishes Aristotle is that his language is addressed emphatically to citizens and statesmen not to other political scientists or philosophers. It has a public orientation.

亚里士多德最突出的地方是,他的语言明显地是指向公民与政治家,而非其它的政治科学家或哲学家,其倾向是公众，直接指向公众。

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American voters often vote based on character rather than position.

美国选民经常根据候选人的性格,而非政治立场来投票

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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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Another way of saying that, stop me if this is wrong, but one way to say that is we've been assuming that politics is one dimensional, left/right and there might be other things involved: character or even among issues, even among political issues it could be more than one dimension.

换句话说就是,如果我说错了请纠正,换种说法就是,我们把政治假定为单一维度的,非左即右,然而它还涉及其他方面,比如性格问题,即使政治事务的处理也不是单一维度的

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