1·This question, famously posed by Machiavelli, lies at the heart of Joseph Nye's new book.
这个问题因被马基雅维利提出而广为人知，是约瑟夫·奈新书的核心。
2·Yet in many ways, Machiavelli proceeds to deprecate the virtues of the nobility, perhaps to our surprise.
然而在很多方面，马基雅维利却抨击,贵族阶级的所谓美德，或许这令我们很惊讶。
3·Machiavelli, you remember, claimed to have discovered a new continent, new modes and orders.
马基雅维利，被认为是，发现了一块新的领域，新的模式和秩序。
4·Machiavelli USES these two psychological and even in some ways quasi-medical terms, humors, to designate two classes of people on which every society is based.
马基雅维利运用这两个心理学上的，甚至某种程度上准医学的术语，人民特质，来界定两种不同阶级的人，每个社会都以此为基础。
5·But you might say, Hobbes goes further than Machiavelli.
但是霍布斯比马基雅维利想得远。
1·That has always been a good tactic in the home of the Medicis and bureaucrats like Machiavelli, a friend of Leonardo's who signed the contract commissioning the battle mural.
在美地奇家族故乡，官僚盛行的地方，如此举动真是不赖的战术。马基雅弗利，达芬奇的一个朋友，签署了壁画合同。
2·Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer things to say than Machiavelli?
谁能认为但丁要说的东西比马基雅弗利少些呢？
3·Machiavelli isn't necessarily defending or recommending this behavior; he's just reporting the facts.
马基雅弗利并不一定是在推崇这些做法，或者为之辩解；他只是实话实说。
4·This aspect of Machiavelli is at least as important as the more famous "immoral" doctrines of the Prince.
马基雅弗利的这一面，和《邦主鉴》里那种比较闻名的“不道德的”主义，至少是同样重要的。
5·Others fret, like Machiavelli, that it is often better to be feared than loved, and that the people who ought to fear America don't take Mr Obama seriously.
其他像马基雅弗利这样的人则感到不满，认为被人怕通常比被人爱好，那些理应害怕美国的人不把奥巴马先生当回事。