What we're trying to get at here is--it can be very elusive, but I imagine most of you are familiar with it.

我要表达的意思,可能非常晦涩,但我相信你们大多数对它并不陌生

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Who was this strange and elusive man whose writings seem to have been enlisted both for the support of monarchy and for republics, even for a universal monarchy and a smaller participatory democratic kind of government?

这位奇怪，难以理解的人是谁,他的写作似乎同时横跨,支持君主政体及共和政体两个范畴，甚至可说是一种世界帝国,和相较下,式微的参与式共和政府？

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Here's what's elusive.

这就是晦涩的地方。

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