The political world does not present itself

政治世界却不那么简单地
as simply an infinite variety of different shapes.

将自身呈现不同形式一种无穷差异
It is structured and ordered into a few basic regime types.

它经构建安排成一些基本政体类型
In this, I take it to be one of the most important propositions

我认为在政治科学中最重要的主张和见解
and insights of political science. Right? So far?

到现在为止还懂吗
But there is a corollary to this insight.

但这种见解有一个必然结果
The regime is always something particular.

政权永远是种很特别的玩意儿
It stands in a relation of opposition to other regime types,

它站在一个与其他政体类型对立的位置
and as a consequence the possibility of conflict, of tension,

或导致冲突或造成紧张局势
and war is built in to the very structure of politics.

而战争更是建立在政治架构之间
Regimes are necessarily partisan, that is to say

政体不可避免有党派色彩也就是说
they instill certain loyalties and passions

他们灌输特定的忠诚和热情