They destroy these helpless but stoic humans who are chafing under their tyrannical and unjust and uncaring rule. In the biblical story, when the Israelites told the story, they modified it.

他们把那些在他们残暴，不公平统治下,无助又愤愤不平的人,全部消灭了，当犹太人来讲这个故事时，他们对此做了修改。

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"The ferocity of this spectacle," Machiavelli concludes, " "left the people at once satisfied and stupefied."

马奇亚维利总结“,“这个残暴场面，让人们立即感到满足与失觉“

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He's tyrannical, he's rapacious, he's undisciplined, he's over-sexed.

残暴，贪婪，毫无修养，沉溺美色。

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Because the wardens-- people off the street, randomly divided- were becoming so oppressive.

因为随意找来的，随机分配的典狱长们-,变得非常残暴。

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He treats them like an absolute tyrant.

他残暴地对待他们

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And because he knew that the past rigors had generated some hatred for Ramiro, to purge the spirits of that people and to gain them entirely to himself, he wishes to show that if any cruelty had been committed, Cesare this had not come from him, from Cesare, but from the harsh nature of his minister.

因为他清楚过去的严苛行为,已为，Ramiro，招来一些怨怼，因为他想要肃清那些人的意志,以期完全掌控他们，他希望,有任何的残忍的行为，那也不是他的主意而是，而是来自其官员的残暴本性。

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