来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第1集 第1集》

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  He's thinking I will now discover the eternal pattern of politics
  他想他能发掘出政治的永恒模式
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  and he's thinking if I can do that
  他也认为如果能找到 他就能
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  then I can reach for the best, I can avoid the worst,
  创造最优秀的政府从而避免最糟糕的政府
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  and whatever we're going to do when we make a new government
  其实无论我们怎样去创建一个新政府
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  maybe we're going to actually do something better than what's come before.
  也许都会比之前的要好
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  So there's a logic to it; as ambitious as it is there's a logic.
  所以他如此雄心勃勃是有理由的
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  And he was serious about it so it wasn't even just I wonder
  他严肃地对待制宪问题而不只是好奇
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  what happens if I read a lot about government.
  读了那么多关于政府的书之后能够得到什么
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  He actually was serious about it.
  他确实在严肃地对待这一问题
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  He even made a kind of a little chart in which he listed the
  甚至还制表列举各种形式的政府
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  governments and then listed pros and cons.
  及其利弊两面
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  You know, like what did I think of Sparta?
  比如 我对斯巴达有什么看法