泰西塔斯 meaning in English
tacitus
Examples
- For if a man have that penetration of judgment , as he can discern , what things are to be laid open , and what to be secreted , and what to be showed at half lights , and to whom , and when ( which indeed are arts of state , and arts of life , as tacitus well calleth mem ) , to him , a habit of dissimulation is a hindrance , and a poorness
因为假如一个人有那种明察的能力,能够看得出某事应当公开,某事应当隐秘,某事应当在半明半暗之中微露,并且看得出这事底或隐或显应当是对何人,在何时(这些正即是泰西塔斯所谓的治国与处世的要术) ,那末在他这样的一个人,一种掩饰的习惯是一种阻挠,一个弱点。