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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Think of all the insurrections or all the people who followed false czars to utter slaughter in Russia.

想想那些在俄罗斯追随,追随假沙皇起义的人们［对贵族］的屠杀

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I think,as far as I can see,that the claim we all die alone, however we interpret it,just ends up being implausible or false.

在我看来，说我们全都会孤独而死，无论怎样解释都是不合理的，错误的。

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That's all about a wrong god anyway. It's about a false god.

它说的是一个错误的，虚假的上帝。

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Pseudo code. Now, you're all linguistic majors, pseudo means false, this sounds like code that ain't going to run, and that's not the intent of the term. When I say pseudo code, what I mean is, I'm going to write a description of the steps, but not in a particular programming language.

伪代码，基于你们都是学语言的，伪代码意味着不正确,这听起来就像是没法运行的代码,这可不是我们学这个的目的，当我说到伪代码的时候,我的意思是要对步骤进行一个描述,而不是某种特定的编程语言。

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And if it is,all I can say is, again,it just seems to be false.

即便是这样，我还是能说，这看上去还是错的。

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But the point to think about for next time is just, is it really true that all three of the premises are true, or might one or more of them be false?

但下次要思考的关键是,那三个前提是否的确全部为真,或许一个或几个为假呢

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