Machiavellian
Machiavellian ['mækɪə'vɛlɪən]
adj. 不择手段的；狡猾的；马基雅弗利的 n. 权谋政治家
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- Someone Machiavellian is sneaky, cunning, and lacking a moral code. The word comes from the Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, who wrote the political treatise The Prince in the 1500s, that encourages “the end justifies the means” behavior, especially among politicians.
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- adj. 不择手段的；狡猾的；马基雅弗利的
- n. 权谋政治家
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1. That is financial engineering at its most Machiavellian.
这是最最狡猾的金融创新。
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2. There might be a little more of Nietzsche suggested in that, than Machiavelli, but I think the Machiavellian overtones are very evident.
这之中也许有更多尼采的成份,而非马奇亚维利，但我认为马奇亚维利式的言外之意,是非常明显的。
- Machiavellian (adj.) "cunning, deceitful, unscrupulous," 1570s, from Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Florentine statesman and author of "Il Principe," a work advising rulers to place advantage above morality. A word of abuse in English well before his works were translated ("The Discourses" in 1636, "The Prince" in 1640), in part because his books were Indexed by the Church, in part because of French attacks on him (such as Gentillet's, translated into English 1602).
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