Above all, Aristotle's works, like the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics, were explicitly intended as works of political instruction, political education.

尤其是亚里士多德的大作，像是《政治学》和《尼各马科伦理学》,更是表明要作为,政治教学，政治教育的著作。

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It is a work comparable in scope to other literary masterworks Hamlet, Don Quixote, War and Peace, others you might think of.

本书的文学范畴,能与其它的巨著相提并论,诸如《哈姆雷特》，《唐吉诃德》,《战争与和平》或其它你想得到的大作。

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And in perhaps the most important book on Machiavelli ever written, the author of that book declared Machiavelli to be a teacher of evil.

而在一本可能是有史以来,探讨马奇亚维利最重要的大作中，该书作者宣称,马奇亚维利是邪恶教师。

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It is a work, The Prince, that everybody has heard of, perhaps has some preconception about.

这本大作《君王论》,就是每个人都早有听闻，或许更已有先入之见。

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It was here, from a place of political exile, that he wrote his major works--The Prince, the Discourses on Livy, and The Art of War.

也就是从这儿，从这个他遭到放逐的地方，他写下大作《君王论》,《论利瓦伊》,和《战争的艺术》

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In one of these letters, a famous letter to his friend, Francesco Vettori a man named Francesco Vettori, he describes how he came to write his most famous book.

其中一封信，是写给他的一位知名友人，名为，他形容自己,如何写就其最著名的大作。

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To begin to answer this question you might say even begin to think about it in the right way requires that we stand back from Aristotle's text for a while and ask some fundamental questions about it.

若要开始回答这个问题,你也甚至可以说,开始以正确的方式思考这个问题,需要我们,暂时放下亚里士多德的大作,回头提问一些基本的问题。

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As he puts it in the dedication of his most famous book, he writes that this book The Prince "is a product of long experience with modern things " and a continuous reading of the ancient ones."

从而催生出,他最呕心沥血的大作，他笔下的《君王论》,“是一部,对现代事物长久体验,与持续阅读古籍的结晶“

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