body politic

基本解釋

Jefferson, says Mr Gore, was right: “Rousseau said the body politic is a moral being possessed of a will.
戈爾先生說：“杰弗遜是正確的。 ‘盧梭說過，國家是支配意志的道德’。
In the eyes of all reformers such as Plato, the "body politic" could not operate without interference from the top.
在所有的改革者（比如柏拉圖）看來，沒有來自上層的干預，國家將無以為繼。
Beware of the fifth column. They often infiltrate into key positions and seek to undermine the body politic from within.
要提防隱蔽的敵人，他們經(jīng)常滲透到關鍵崗位企圖從內(nèi)部破壞國家政體。

"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense."
This is a recurring rhetoric, this notion that there is a cancer in the body politic.
這是一種經(jīng)常反復出現(xiàn)的修辭，這個國家的政治體系是有潛在的危險的。
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The difference may be where the center of gravity of the body politic lies.
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And all these changes, all these challenges, inevitably cause some tension in the body politic.
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The body politic is all the people of a nation when they are considered as a complete political group.