So you'd have a patron who would be higher class, richer, more powerful, have some political power, and you would be loyal to your patron, and your patron would then represent you in court, try to get you jobs, try to get you more business, do all the kinds of things that patrons do for their clients.

要找个比你社会地位高，比你有钱有权，有一定政治影响力的庇护人，你也要忠诚于他，庇护人会在法庭上代表你，帮你找工作，帮你介绍生意，各种庇护人为被庇护人做的事。

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So Socrates has become a very central symbol of political resistance and resistance to political power and of the dangers to the individual of unchecked rule.

所以，苏格拉底已,成为政治抵抗的中心标志,还有抵抗政治权力,及未受管束之规则对个人的危害。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Obviously, it goes without saying that today the assessment of Milton as some kind of imminent social threat or some sort of social force in terms of the radical nature of political power - that has taken a sharp turn.

显然--这是不言而喻的--现在，这一种基于弥尔顿,政治力量的激进性而把他看做是,危险的社会威胁或社会力量的观点,已经有了180度大转弯。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But if you look at 1860, the bottom map, if you can vaguely see those deep, dark, red areas, you can see where cotton moved, where slavery moved in the domestic slave trade, and then where Southern political power moved.

看看1860年,就在地图的最底部,如果你们能看到这些深红色的区域,你们就能明白棉花种植地的扩大,是如何导致奴隶需求量扩大的,同样变化的还有南方政权力量

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

By now, in our time, however, the power of religion has faded, and for many, the basis of modern political and moral order has been demolished.

但是现在,宗教的影响力慢慢减弱了,对大部分人来说,现代政治,道德准则的基础已经被毁坏了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And you will find, as we will in the next few weeks, the Southern political power by the 1850s and 1860s is really no longer in Virginia, or even South Carolina, it's out in the Mississippi Valley.

在接下来的几周课中你们会发现,截至十九世纪五六十年代,弗吉尼亚,南卡罗来纳州和密西西比河谷,已经不存在南方政权力量了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Like Milton, Satan is in the business of demystifying power, of exposing political or cultural power as something that is not simply inherently there or naturally there.

正如弥尔顿一样，撒旦也是要揭开力量被神化的幻想，向人们揭露政治或文化力量并不是,与生俱来自然而然的存在的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

These political clubs or parties use their influence to incense the populous using their power to whip up dangerous passions that tend to make American politicians closer to demagogues than to statesmen.

用他们的权力激怒群众,用他们的权力激起危险的热情,致使美国政治家,趋近于蛊惑民心的政客,而非政治家。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well, the people who the Romans called barbarians destroyed the Western empire and it also the destroyed the power of the emperors and their efforts to impose religious and political conformity under imperial control.

那么,被罗马人称作野蛮人的民族,摧毁了西方帝国的同时也摧毁了,君主权力,以及通过王权实施,政教合一的种种努力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Milton's power was primarily seen as social and political and cultural.

弥尔顿的力量最初被看作是社会，政治，文化上的。

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