来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论 第10集 第10集》
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on the outskirts of the city.城郊的一小块不动产 -
You can visit it today.现在这里还在对游客开放 -
It was here, from a place of political exile,也就是在此 这个他被政治放逐的地方 -
that he wrote his major works-- The Prince,他写完成了他的主要作品 君主论 -
the Discourses on Livy, and The Art of War.论李维和战争的艺术 -
It was from here, also, that he wrote voluminous也是从此地 他为了探求政治的知识 -
letters to friends seeking knowledge about politics.他给友人们写下了海量的信件 -
Machiavelli was a kind of political junkie, you could say,你可以说 马基雅维利有一种政治瘾 -
in things happening in Italy and else where.不管是哪里的政治他都着迷 -
In one of these letters, a famous letter to his friend,在诸多信件中 一封写给 -
a man named Francesco Vettori,名叫弗朗西斯科·维特里的朋友的信中 -
he describes how he came to write his most famous book.他诉说了他是如何产生著述此书的想法