Members of the coalition walked out of the negotiations soon after they began on Wednesday, citing what they called Mr.Gadhafi's lack of respect for the democratic principles they espouse.

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The polity is the regime that represents for Aristotle a mixture of the principles of oligarchy and democracy.

政体对亚里士多德而言,即是代表,寡头与民主原则混合的政权。

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The president that I work for, I always saw him trying to get first to the best policy based on his principles.

我辅佐的这位总统，我总会看见他努力根据自己的原则,规划出最好的政策。

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And, as I reminded you at the end of last day, the only reason I am doing this for you right now is I want to elucidate the principles.

就像我上次课的最后跟你们说过的那样，我现在给你们讲这些,仅仅是我想把原理阐释清楚。

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that, except for the principles, maybe their families maybe not, all our money can disappear in thirty days, so we have to be cognizant of that.

这意味着除了那些最重要的人，或者是他们的家人，或者不是，我们所有的钱可以在30天之内消失，所以我们必须认识到这一点。

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But,there was a big problem, that for all of his failings,human failings, and there were indeed many, and his intellectual limitations which were daunting, he was a man of faith and loyalty to his principles, for better or for worse,in this context.

但是他的弱点,人性的弱点,是个大问题,而且他的弱点确实很多,还有他的智力界限也令人沮丧,他是个固执于自己原则的人,不管原则是好是坏

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re seen as having betrayed our principles, re seen as no longer standing for the things that Americans think we stand for, for liberty and democracy and justice.

大家认为我们背叛了我们的原则，We’,大家认为我们，We’,不再坚持我们的主张，不再主张自由，民主和正义。

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