这场法律角逐可能会耗上好几个月的时间，哪一方在法庭占上风，哪一方又会赢得公众舆论和立法者的青睐都尚不可知。

There will probably be months of legal tussling, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.

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但是美国和外国立法的历史说明，我们对立法者的看法，以及他们对自己的看法，对他们的工作有深远的影响。

But the history of regulation both here and abroad suggests that how we think about regulators, and how they think of themselves, has a profound impact on the work they do.

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曾经是立法者的卖点，国会直拨开支，另一种说法是计划开支或者分肥计划，现在成为许多在任议员2010竞选的责任。

Once a selling point for lawmakers, congressionally directed spending – otherwise known as earmarks or “pork barrel” projects – is becoming a liability for many incumbents in Campaign 2010.

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Are the philosophers or are the poets you might say the true legislators for mankind ?! if you want to use Shelley's dictum?

是哲学家或是诗学家,或者你可以说，人类的真正立法者,如果你想要借用雪莱名言的话？

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Which one legislates for mankind ? at the time of Socrates?

那一种是苏格拉底时期,人类的真正立法者？

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It should be taught from the universities and from this conversation will be sprinkled upon the people. Hobbes' hope, like that of all the great political philosophers, was to be a kind of legislator for mankind.

通过对话交流的方式,对他人起到潜移默化的作用,像古往今来那些伟大的政治哲学家们一样,霍布斯也希望自己在某一天，成为人类行为规范的立法者。

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