好人往往最后才成功|马基雅维利给“好人”的残酷生存建议
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| 0:08 | Machiavelli was a 16th century Florentine political thinker with powerful advice for nice people | Machiavelli是16世纪佛罗伦萨政治思想家,为好人提供有力的建议 |
| 0:15 | who don't get very far. | 跑不远的 |
| 0:17 | His thought pivots around a central, uncomfortable observation | 他的思绪 围绕一个中心,不舒服的观察 |
| 0:22 | that the wicked tend to win. | 恶人往往胜负。 |
| 0:23 | And they do so because they have a huge advantage over the | 他们这样做是因为 他们拥有巨大的优势 |
| 0:27 | good. | 不错 |
| 0:27 | They are willing to act with the darkest ingenuity and cunning to further their cause. | 他们愿意以最黑暗的智慧和狡猾的方式采取行动,推进他们的事业。 |
| 0:34 | They are not held back by those rigid opponents of change, principles. | 这些僵硬的变革、原则的反对者不会阻止它们。 |
| 0:39 | They will be prepared | 他们将准备 |
| 0:39 | to outright lie, twist facts, threaten or get violent. | 直接撒谎 歪曲事实 威胁或暴力 |
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| 1 | Machiavelli was a 16th century Florentine political thinker with powerful advice for nice people | Machiavelli是16世纪佛罗伦萨政治思想家,为好人提供有力的建议 |
| 2 | who don't get very far. | 跑不远的 |
| 3 | His thought pivots around a central, uncomfortable observation | 他的思绪 围绕一个中心,不舒服的观察 |
| 4 | that the wicked tend to win. | 恶人往往胜负。 |
| 5 | And they do so because they have a huge advantage over the | 他们这样做是因为 他们拥有巨大的优势 |
| 6 | good. | 不错 |
| 7 | They are willing to act with the darkest ingenuity and cunning to further their cause. | 他们愿意以最黑暗的智慧和狡猾的方式采取行动,推进他们的事业。 |
| 8 | They are not held back by those rigid opponents of change, principles. | 这些僵硬的变革、原则的反对者不会阻止它们。 |
| 9 | They will be prepared | 他们将准备 |
| 10 | to outright lie, twist facts, threaten or get violent. | 直接撒谎 歪曲事实 威胁或暴力 |
| 11 | They will also, when the situation | 他们也会,当情况 |
| 12 | demands it, know how to seductively deceive, use charm and honeyed words, bedazzle and | 要求它,知道如何诱骗, 使用魅力和蜂蜜的言语, |
| 13 | distract. | 分散注意力。 |
| 14 | And in this way, they conquer the world. | 这样他们就能征服世界 |
| 15 | It is routinely assumed that a large | 人们通常认为, |
| 16 | part of what it means to be a good person is that one acts well. | 做一个好人意味着 一个人表现得很好 |
| 17 | One doesn't only | 不止一个 |
| 18 | have good ends, one is committed to good means. | 有好的目的, 一个人致力于好的手段。 |
| 19 | So if one wants a more serious world, | 所以,如果一个人想要一个更严肃的世界, |
| 20 | one needs to win people over through serious argument, not clickbait. | 人们需要通过严肃的争论来赢得人们的胜利,而不是轻轻的指责。 |
| 21 | If one wants a fairer | 如果想要一个更公平的 |
| 22 | world, one has to judiciously and gently try to persuade the agents of injustice to surrender | 世界必须明智而温柔地劝说 不公正的人投降 |
| 23 | willingly, not through intimidation. | 自愿的 不是通过恐吓 |
| 24 | And if one wants people to be kind, one must show | 如果想要人善良,就必须显示 |
| 25 | kindness to one's enemies, not ruthlessness. | 善待敌人,而不是残忍 |
| 26 | It sounds splendid, but Machiavelli couldn't | 听起来很棒,但马奇雅维利不能 |
| 27 | overlook an incontrovertible problem. | 忽略了一个无可争议的问题。 |
| 28 | It doesn't work. | 亦无功用. |
| 29 | As he looked back over the | 当他回头看 |
| 30 | history of Florence and the Italian states more generally, he observed that nice princes, | 佛罗伦萨和意大利诸邦的历史 更概括地说 他观察到好王子们 |
| 31 | statesmen and merchants always come unstuck. | 政治家和商人总是不拘泥于此 |
| 32 | That's why he wrote the book for which we | 这就是为什么他写了这本书,我们 |
| 33 | know him today, The Prince, a short, dazzling manual of advice for well-disposed princes | 今天认识他,王子, 一个简短的,令人眩晕的手册 给善待的王子们的建议 |
| 34 | on how not to finish last. | 关于如何不完成最后。 |
| 35 | And the answer, in short, was to be nice as one wished, but | 简言之,答案是, 是一个人希望的好,但 |
| 36 | never to be overly devoted to acting nicely, and indeed to know how to borrow, when need | 永远不要过于专注于善行, 并且确实知道如何借贷, 必要时 |
| 37 | be, every single trick employed by the most cynical, dastardly, unscrupulous and nastiest | 被最愤世嫉俗、卑劣、无耻和最讨厌的人 |
| 38 | people who have ever lived. | 曾经活着的人 |
| 39 | Machiavelli知道我们从何而来 | |
| 40 | acting nicely originated. | 表现的不错 |
| 41 | The West was brought up on the Christian story of Jesus of Nazareth, | 西方人提起拿撒勒耶稣的基督教故事 |
| 42 | the very nice man from Galilee who always treated people well and wound up as the King | 那个从加利利来的好人 他总是善待人,最后成为国王 |
| 43 | of Kings and the ruler of eternity. | 国王和永恒的统治者 |
| 44 | 但Machiavelli指出一个不方便的细节 | |
| 45 | sentimental tale of the triumph of goodness through meekness. | 多愁善感的故事 善的胜利 通过温柔。 |
| 46 | From a practical perspective, | 从实际的角度来看, |
| 47 | Jesus' life was an outright disaster. | 耶稣的生命简直是灾难 |
| 48 | This gentle soul was trampled upon and humiliated, | 这个温柔的灵魂被践踏和羞辱, |
| 49 | disregarded and mocked. | 无视和嘲笑。 |
| 50 | Judged in his lifetime and outside of any divine assistance, he was | 在他一生中以及在任何神灵的帮助之外 |
| 51 | one of history's greatest losers. | 历史上最大的失败者之一 |
| 52 | The clue to being effective lies in overcoming | 有效的线索在于克服 |
| 53 | all vestiges of this story. | 这故事的残余 |
| 54 | The Prince was not, as is often thought, a guide to being | 王子并没有像人们常想的那样成为 |
| 55 | a tyrant. | 一个暴君。 |
| 56 | It's a guide about what nice people should learn from tyrants. | 这是一个关于什么好人应该向暴君学习的指南. |
| 57 | It's a book about | 这是一本关于 |
| 58 | how to be effective, not just good. | 如何有效,不只是好。 |
| 59 | It's a book haunted by examples of the impotence | 这是一本被无能的例子困扰的书 |
| 60 | of the pure. | 纯洁的。 |
| 61 | The admirable Prince – and today we might add CEO, political activist or thinker – | 值得敬佩的王子,今天我们可能会加入首席执行官,政治活动家或思想家。 |
| 62 | should learn every lesson from the slickest, most devious operators around. | 应该从最狡猾最狡猾的操作者那里吸取教训 |
| 63 | They should know how to | 他们应该知道如何 |
| 64 | scare and intimidate, cajole and bully, entrap and beguile. | 恐吓和恐吓,恶棍和欺负,诱骗和欺负。 |
| 65 | The good politician needs to learn | 好政治人物需要学习 |
| 66 | from the bad one, the earnest entrepreneur from the slick one. | 从坏的, 真诚的企业家 从滑的。 |
| 67 | We are all ultimately the sum of | 我们最终都是 |
| 68 | what we achieve, not what we intend. | 我们的成就,而不是我们的意图。 |
| 69 | If we care about wisdom, kindness, seriousness and virtue, | 如果我们关心智慧、善良、严肃和美德 |
| 70 | but only ever act wisely, kindly, seriously and virtuously, we will, Machiavelli warns us, | 但只要有智慧、善良、严肃和善良的行事 我们会的 Machiavelli警告我们 |
| 71 | get nowhere. | 得到无处。 |
| 72 | We need to learn lessons from an unexpected source, those we temperamentally most | 我们需要从一个出乎意料的来源吸取教训 那些我们最温和的 |
| 73 | despise. | 轻视。 |
| 74 | They have the most to teach us about how to bring about the reality we yearn for, | 他们最能教我们如何实现我们渴望的现实 |
| 75 | but that they are fighting against. | 但他们正在反抗。 |
| 76 | We need weapons of similar grade steel to theirs. | 我们需要和他们一样等级的武器 |
| 77 | Ultimately, we should care more about being effective than about being nobly intentioned. | 归根结底,我们应更加关心效力,而不是空洞的意图。 |
| 78 | It's not enough to dream well. | 岂足以梦好. |
| 79 | The true measure is what we achieve. | 真正的衡量标准就是我们的成就。 |
| 80 | The purpose is to change the | 目的是改变 |
| 81 | world for the better, not reside in the quiet comforts of good intentions and a warm heart. | 世界更美好,而不是生活在善意和热情的宁静舒适之中。 |
| 82 | All this Machiavelli knew. | 马奇雅维利都知道 |
| 83 | He disturbs us for good reason because he probes us where we are | 他骚扰我们是有原因的 因为他调查我们的位置 |
| 84 | at our most self-serving. | 我们最自私的人 |
| 85 | We tell ourselves we didn't get there because we are a little too pure, | 我们告诉自己我们没有到那里 因为我们太纯洁了 |
| 86 | good and kind. | 善良善良 温柔善良 |
| 87 | Machiavelli bracingly informs us we are stuck because we have been too short-sighted | Machiavelli直言不讳地告诉我们 我们被困住了 因为我们太短视了 |
| 88 | to learn from those who really know our enemies. | 向那些真正了解我们的敌人学习 |
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