the body politic

常见例句

Jefferson, says Mr Gore, was right: “Rousseau said the body politic is a moral being possessed of a will.
戈尔先生说：“杰弗逊是正确的。 ‘卢梭说过，国家是支配意志的道德’。
Yet the 78-year-old ex-paratrooper, who made it into the 2002 presidential run-off against Jacques Chirac, still wields a baleful influence over the body politic.
可这个78岁的前伞兵，曾经在2002年总统大选与希拉克决斗的勒庞，仍就在单政府领导的国家中有着极大的杀伤力。
It represents a healthy reaction of the body politic; these destructive forces having been brought in, temporarily, to rid it of accumulated thought-rubbish.
它代表着政体对外界的健康的反应，一些破坏性的力量暂时被带进来，让它们去清除那累积的思想垃圾。

"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.
这是一种经常反复出现的修辞，这个国家的政治体系是有潜在的危险的。
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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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It will take a while for the changes to show up in the body politic.
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