There are hereditary principalities, like those currently run by Lorenzo, which acquire their authority through tradition and hereditary bloodlines.

第一种是世袭君权，像是由罗伦佐所掌管的候国，其威信的获得,来自传统与世袭血源。

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Having distinguished two, and only two, kinds of regimes, republics and principalities, as the only ones worth mentioning, he goes on to distinguish two kinds of principalities.

区别出两种，且仅就两种政体，共和与君权，仅这两种值得提及，他继续区分出,两种君权。

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All states, all dominions that have held and do hold empire over man " are either republics or principalities," he says in the opening sentence of chapter 1.

所有国家，所有领地,只要是曾或正让君权凌驾人民之上,要不是共和就是君权“,他在第一章的开头即如是说到。

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Then he says there are new princes and new principalities.

然后他提到,新君王与新君权。

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And many have imagined," one thinks here of Plato, perhaps, but also to Christianity" Many have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen " or known to exist in truth.

因为已有太多的梦想家“,其中一人即柏拉图，但也可能是基督教“,“已有太多对共和,与君权的幻想,而那从来都未真实地存在。

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Machiavelli then asserts that his book will deal only with principalities, leaving, he says, the discussion of republics for elsewhere, what one assumes his Discourses of Livy, which he was already writing by this time.

马奇亚维利随后强调,他的著作仅会处理君权，而不论及如他所说，将共和的讨论放到另一本书中，即他的《论利瓦伊》,此书已早先写成。

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