Its rhetoric is so flat and unemotional, so overtly unrhetorical.

它的修辞如此平白流畅不带感情，仿佛不是修辞本身。

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The idea then that Machiavelli is doing no more than saying openly and overtly what ancient writers had wrapped in parable and enigma and myth says something about Machiavelli's new political science.

马基雅维利只不过是,公然说出了古代作家们,以寓言，谜以及神话的形式包裹的内容,这种看法一定程度上阐明了马基雅维利的。

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