"All politics grows out of the barrel of a gun," as a famous twentieth-century Machiavellian once put it.

所有的政治都是活在枪杆子下“,这是二十世纪一位著名,马奇亚维利派学者的解译。

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It's a literary genre that dates back to late classical Greece and which typically charts the trials and tribulations of a hero, in many cases the trials and tribulations of a virginal heroine.

它是一种文学流派，可以追溯到古典希腊时期,这种流派规划了一位英雄了考验和磨难，许多情况下是给一位童贞的女英雄的考验和磨难。

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The next one is a colleague of mine, William Corbin, who's doing some very interesting work on alcohol intake and gambling, and sometimes how they go together.

下一位是我的同事威廉·柯宾,他在从事关于酗酒及嗜赌的研究,为何两者常会被联系在一起

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And then lastly there's Allan Gurganus, that wonderful Modern Southern writer who wrote that book called The Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All, you know that bizarre it's a wonderful read.

最后我们要讲下艾伦·古尔加努斯,一位杰出的当代南方作家,他写了本书叫做,《往日情怀》,名字听起来很古怪,却是一本很值得一看的书

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