Most people who fail for lack of social skills talk of "office politics" doing them in, but the politics may be nothing more than normal interactions among people.

大多数因为缺乏社交技能而失败的人常常谈到“公务”弄得他们筋疲力尽。 但公务或许只不过是正常的人际交往而已。

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But Machiavelli does not deny that in ordinary terms, in what we might call times of normal politics, the ordinary rules of justice prevail.

但马奇亚维利并未否认,太平时期，在我们会称之为常态政治的时期，寻常的正义规范才是准则。

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He also shows, however, that normal politics is, itself, dependent upon extraordinary politics, periods of crisis, anarchy, instability, revolution, where the normal rules of the game are suspended.

然而他也同时了解到常态政治，本身有赖于破例政治，诸如危机，失序，不稳定，革命等时期，当游戏的常态规范,遭搁置。

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Machiavelli takes his bearings from these extreme states of emergency and in his own way, seeks to normalize them, to present them as the normal condition of politics.

马奇亚维利,从这些极端的紧急状态下取材,以他自己的方式寻求将其正常化，并将其,以正常政治状态的方式呈现出来。

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This poor man, quite upstaged, offered to put normal politics on hold, but was spurned.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

So far this has produced a low-key campaign which, by its very dullness, conveys that normal politics are taking root.

ECONOMIST: Elections in Northern Ireland

But that, after all, is what normal politics is all about.

ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland