For him, and I quote him, "Fortune is a woman and it is necessary to hold her down and beat her, and fight with her."

他认为,"命运就是女人,必须控制并将她打倒在地,与其斗争"

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Machiavelli said in that famous chapter 25, that the prince, if he is lucky, will master fortuna about half the time, only about 50% of the time.

马基雅维利在有名的第25章里说，君主，如果他幸运的话，可以在一半的时间里掌握命运，仅仅是50%的时间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I leave it to my expert colleagues in History of the American West to decide exactly who came up with the term Manifest Destiny, who actually first used it.

我的同事是美国西部史专家,他也许能够,阐述清楚命运天定这个术语是怎么出现的,以及到底是谁第一个用它

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That would be tantamount to creating divine enemies, immortal enemies So God must maintain the upper hand in his struggle with these humans who have learned to defy him. And he maintains the upper hand in this, the fact that they eventually must die.

因为，这相当于创造了一个，旗鼓相当，永生的敌人,所以，上帝在与，这些学会反抗他的人类争斗时,占了上峰，利用他的优势,决定了人类必将死亡的命运。

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