There are also images of him as he approached middle age in the 1990's a time he gained the blessing of no less a moral authority than Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

So there, Machiavelli gives us a sense of the seriousness with which he approached his subject, and what it was he came to write.

从这些观点看来马奇亚维利,传达了,他对学习科目的严谨态度，他写作的来由。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He leads a visitor to the hillside where he and his family fled as the tsunami approached.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07