And we're ordering them into war, without looking at all the other ways we could achieve our objectives, and without recgnising the precious values of those lifes.

我们命令他们奔赴战场，却都没有考虑过些许有其它办法,能达到目的，我们意识不到,他们生命价值的可贵。

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But rather that he is enormously clever, that he can use speech to achieve practical ends just as he uses strength and power, and all those other things.

更是指他非常聪明,他可以用演说来达到实际的目的,就像他使用力量,权力,以及所有其他的品质来达到目的一样

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All he tells us is that we are the polis animal by nature and that to achieve our ends, it will be necessary to live in a polis.

他只说到,我们是天生的城邦动物,为了达成目标，必需要住在城邦之中。

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In other words, not Lorenzo at all, but precisely princes who have or will achieve their authority through their own guile, their own force, or their own virtu, to use the famous Machiavellian term that I want to talk about later.

换句话说并非罗伦佐，而是那些已经或将会,透过其欺诈手段,获得职权的君王，透过其武力或，Virtu，夺权的君王，这是马奇亚维利著名的词汇,我稍后会谈到。

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