He also shows, however, that normal politics is, itself, dependent upon extraordinary politics, periods of crisis, anarchy, instability, revolution, where the normal rules of the game are suspended.

然而他也同时了解到常态政治，本身有赖于破例政治，诸如危机，失序，不稳定，革命等时期，当游戏的常态规范,遭搁置。

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That is to say, when the rules governing authority have broken down in times of crisis, and that was certainly true in Hobbes' time, a time of civil war and crisis.

这就是说，当统治权力,在危机下崩溃时，这恰好就是霍布斯时代的情况，充满内战和危机的时代。

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It kind of was a wake up call in Germany because they were watching with amusement the subprime crisis in the United States and here it was causing losses to the German Government.

这次危机震醒了德国,当初德国还把,美国次贷危机当笑话看,德国政府付出了沉重的代价

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Machiavelli's preference for these extreme situations expresses his belief that only in moments of great crisis, where the very existence of a state is at risk, does human nature truly reveal itself.

马奇亚维利偏好,这类极端的情势,表述出他相信,仅在重大危机的当头，当一国的存亡面临考验之时，人类的本性才会真正显现出来。

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