I looked at this, you see, and at the men who were in politics, at the laws and customs.

我观察这些人,这些在掌握政治权力法律及海关的人。

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This seems to be and is, clearly, a kind of classic statement of sheer Machiavellian power politics.

这看似且就是，清楚地表述了,十足马奇亚维利式的权力政治。

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So Socrates has become a very central symbol of political resistance and resistance to political power and of the dangers to the individual of unchecked rule.

所以，苏格拉底已,成为政治抵抗的中心标志,还有抵抗政治权力,及未受管束之规则对个人的危害。

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These political clubs or parties use their influence to incense the populous using their power to whip up dangerous passions that tend to make American politicians closer to demagogues than to statesmen.

用他们的权力激怒群众,用他们的权力激起危险的热情,致使美国政治家,趋近于蛊惑民心的政客,而非政治家。

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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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