Will not even philosophers, one might ask, given the possibility of absolute power ? be tempted to abuse their positions?

难道哲学家，有人可能问到，如果他们拥有绝对的力量时,难道不会想要滥用职权吗？

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from being abused by the military or by the police.

免于军事方面或是警察的滥用职权。

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We are what we are because of the power and authority of the laws, the customs, the traditions, the culture that has shaped us.

我们的存在,是因为法律，习俗，传统及文化的职权与威信,这些形塑了我们。

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But,anyway,these police were wrestling to the ground these mayors who were protesting,using their tri-color sashes, threatening to strangle them with their own sashes of their authority.

回到正题,这些警察和抗议的市长们,在地上扭成一团,市长们用代表职权的三色旗饰带,威胁着要把警察扼死

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I think that we're probably going that way anyway and I think that in the next presidential administration we'll see an expansion of the role of the Fed.

我想我们正超那方面发展,无论如何，那都是,下一任总统的事情了,我们将看到联邦政府的职权在扩大。

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Middle-class Puritans like John Milton find themselves upholding the authority of Parliament over the authority of King Charles and over the authority of the official Church of England.

中产阶级的清教徒像弥尔顿，发现自己,把议会的职权看得比国王查尔斯的权力要重,甚至比英格兰正式的教会的权力还重要。

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It is when political functions become concentrated into the hands of again the too few hands that we risk arbitrary government and the endangerment to the liberty of the individual.

因为一旦政治职权,过度集中于,少数人的手中,我们面临的风险,便是独断政府,及个人自由的危机。

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He doesn't so much insist as you will see in your reading on the actual separation of functions of government putting them into separate hands.

但他其实并未坚持,如你们在阅读中会发现,政府的职权,是否真的分离,将权力切割开来。

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In other words, not Lorenzo at all, but precisely princes who have or will achieve their authority through their own guile, their own force, or their own virtu, to use the famous Machiavellian term that I want to talk about later.

换句话说并非罗伦佐，而是那些已经或将会,透过其欺诈手段,获得职权的君王，透过其武力或，Virtu，夺权的君王，这是马奇亚维利著名的词汇,我稍后会谈到。

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