Since he was an unusually small lad, he had been mainlining Greek and Roman poetry.

由于还是非常年轻的孩子，他依旧沉湎于希腊和罗马的诗歌。

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What he wanted to identify was why-- what distinguishes this small group from the rest of the pack: very successful, but not quite as successful as that small group.

他想弄明白其中的原因-,这一小部分人和其他人有何区别：,其他人也非常成功，但没有那一小组人那么成功。

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After the fall of the republic and the return of the Medici to princely rule there, Machiavelli was exiled from the city, from politics to a small estate that he owned on the out skirts of the city.

共和国垮台之后,梅迪西,重新恢复君主政权，马奇亚维利遭到城市放逐，范围包括其政治权力,和他在城郊所拥有的一小块不动产。

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