For certain purpose you can talk about slices but the fundamental thing is the salami.

因为某种目的你可以谈论它的部分,但根本的在于香肠本身。

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Its purpose is to lay bare as it were the fundamental problems the fundamental concepts and categories which frame the study of politics.

它的目的一向是要提出基础的问题,最基础的概念与类别,以建立政治研究的架构。

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