他的两个哥哥早已经离开牧师住宅，往北徒步旅行去了，旅行完了，就一个回他的学院，另一个回到他的副牧师职位上去。

His brothers had already left the vicarage to proceed on a walking tour in the north, whence one was to return to his college, and the other to his curacy.

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In its place, a republic was re-established where Machiavelli occupied the office of secretary to the second chancery, a kind of diplomatic post which he held for 14 years from 1498 to 1512.

取而代之的是一个共和的重新建立,其中马奇亚维利,占据国务院及副总理职，一种类似外交官的职位,他在职，14，年，从，1498，年到，1512，年。

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