And it is that conflict, as it were, between what we might call worldliness and innocence that is the core of Machiavelli's moral code.

可以说，正是那种冲突,那种我们可以称之为世俗理念与纯洁无知之间,的冲突，是马基雅维利道德准则的核心所在。

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I took those same references the exact opposite way, 'cause I thought that essentially he's referring to the temporality of our moral structure, and how it's just this arbitrary code which our society has decided upon.

我对那些参考的理解完全不同，因为我认为本质上他提到了我们道德基准的暂时性,还提到它们如何只是我们社会,随意决定的准则。

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It should not be limited or constrained by any transcendent standards or moral laws that do not derive from politics itself, whether a law of God or some kind of transcendent moral order or code.

它不可以被任何超验的准则或道德条律所,限制和束缚，因为那些并非源自于,政治本身，无论那是上帝的法则，还是,某种超验的道德命令或准则。

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