They provide a virtual education in statecraft in how to negotiate affairs in precisely the way Aristotle would have us do.

他们提供权术的实质教育,教导我们如何谈判,精确的如同亚里士多德,希望我们所能达致的程度。

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What I want to do is to provide a state of the art introduction to the most important topic that there is: us.

我所要做的,就是向大家介绍在人文领域里,对最重要主题,也就是对我们人类的研究现状

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It's a common bacterium and most strains of E. Coli are not harmful to people, in fact, they provide us with some beneficial properties.

它是常见菌,且大多数种类的菌株对人类无害,实际上还给了我们颇多裨益

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Rather the great works provide us so to speak with a repository of fundamental or permanent questions that political scientists still continue to rely on in their work.

而不是靠巨著来回答,这么来说吧，大量基本或永恒的问题,同时也是政治科学家,仍持续在其著作中所倚赖的根本。

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So the great political thinkers were typically engaged in the politics of their times and help in that way to provide us okay with models for how we might think about ours.

所以伟大的思想家,总会涉及他们当代的政治,并以此帮忙想出一些模式,让我们可以自省。

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