In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them; conceal your dispositions,and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies,from the machinations of the wisest brains.

故形兵之极,至于无形﹔无形,则深间不能窥,智者不能谋。

Italian patriot who spurred the movement for an independent,unified Italy with his political writings and machinations ,conducted mostly from exile in London.

马志尼，朱森珀1805-1872意大利爱国者，以其政治性文章和秘密策划推行独立、统一的意大利的运动，大部分是在伦敦流亡期间实施的

That it was human to avoid the peril of death and infamy, and the inscrutable machinations of an enemy;

为了避免死亡和耻辱的危险,以及一个敌人的莫测的诡计,出走原是合乎情理的

conceal your dispositions, and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies, from the machinations of the wisest brains

无形则深间不能窥，智者不能谋。

These lawyers, this jury, this straw-and-water judge, these machinations of fate, did not basically disturb or humble or weaken him

这些律师，这个陪审团，这个随波逐流的推事，这些命运的暗算都没有从根本上使他觉得不安，或者自卑或者怯弱。

the devious machinations of CIA operatives(Christian Science Monitor.

中央情报局特工人员们的偷偷摸摸的阴谋诡计(克里斯蒂恩·赛恩斯·莫尼特)。

||1:At a time when political machinations are all too overt, it is entertaining to learn about the wheeling and dealing during a more discreet age.||2:Yet readers may wish less space was devoted to how Dick felt about Ike, and then how Ike felt about Dick.||3:All this gossip seems to take up valuable space: the Suez crisis, for example, covers no more than two pages.The Iran coup and important details about America’s economy are missed out altogether.||4:Mr Frank tells an absorbing story in a breezy, lucid way.||5:But as a work of history, the book leaves something to be desired.

||1:在当今政治阴谋得以明目张胆之时，看看在更谨慎的年代人们是如何尔虞我诈的不失为一种有趣的作法。||2:然而，读者朋友们可能希望关于他俩对彼此看法的篇幅不要占的过大。||3:所有的这些流言蜚语似乎占据了宝贵的空间：比如苏伊士运河危机只占了不到两页；1953年伊朗政变和关于美国经济的重要细节全被忽略了。||4:本书作者明晰而风趣地讲述了一个引人入胜的故事。||5:但作为一部历史著作，本书还有些不尽如人意的地方。

||1:Disaster has been averted elsewhere, too.||2:Senegal responded with alacrity to its Ebola outbreak (as indeed did Nigeria).||3:Afghanistan remains one of the world’s bleakest places, but it looks a little less bleak after a peaceful handover of power: the Taliban are still slaughtering people, but politically they are a busted flush.||4:Tiny Lebanon deserves a mention for absorbing hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, plus the machinations of malignant outsiders, and continuing, just about, to function.||5:If the peace process between Colombia’s government and its FARC guerrillas succeeds, it will be a favorite for our award in 2015.

||1:在其他地方，灾难也得到了避免。||2:塞内加尔非常欣然地应对了埃博拉疫情（尼日利亚当然也是如此。||3:）阿富汗一直是世界上最没有希望的国家之一，但是在权力和平交接之后就变得不那么没有希望了。塔利班仍然在屠杀人民，但是从政治上看他们充满热血。||4:黎巴嫩这个小国值得一提，因为它收养了成百上千名叙利亚难民，包容了恶毒的局外人使出的阴谋诡计行为，而且继续行使其权力。||5:如果哥伦比亚政府及其革命武装力量游击队员的和平进程能够成功，那么哥伦比亚将会成为2015年年度国家奖的热门人选。

||1:The war has felt distant to most Russians.||2:State television has manipulated its narrative of the conflict to soothe viewers’ feelings of inadequacy and imperial nostalgia, while talking up Western plots and machinations .||3:A poll by the Levada Centre found that 77% of those surveyed said America was the main initiator of Kiev’s operations in the east.||4:The secret burials of Russian paratroopers killed in Ukraine, only to be disavowed by the Russian state, have proved uncomfortable.||5:But compared with the short-lived season of protest three years ago, Russian society seems docile and unthreatening.||6:Another Levada poll found only 8% willing to join protests if they started, against 21% in 2011.

||1:这场战争对于绝大多数俄罗斯人来说是十分遥远的。||2:当在发生西方阴谋论的时候，州立电视台通过控制电视台对于争执的描述，去安慰观众们的不完全帝国主义怀旧情结。||3:勒瓦达中心的一项民意调查发现，77%的被调查民众说美国是基辅在东部活动的主要发起者。||4:被俄罗斯政府所否认的，隐瞒了伞兵在乌克兰遭遇不测的消息，已经引起了民众的不满。||5:但是和三年前短命的抗议相比，俄罗斯社会看起来十分温顺不成威胁。||6:另一项勒瓦达民意测试发现如果俄罗斯和乌克兰开战，只有8%的民众会加入抗议活动，与2011年的21%相反。

Confusion reigns over what the lorries are carrying, and over how they will cross into Ukraine. As The Economist went to press, the convoy was heading to Rostov, a Russian city close to the border.|| It is a measure of Ukrainian distrust of Russian machinations that an aid convoy should be widely suspected of being a Trojan horse for invasion.||

||但是人们一直对卡车上到底装载何物表示怀疑，同时也对他们如何穿过俄乌边境到达任务地区表示质疑。按经济学人的推测，护送车队的目的地将在靠近边境的俄罗斯城镇—罗斯托夫。因为乌克兰当局怀疑这是俄罗斯的诡计，并且这批援助车队极可能是为侵略做准备而送来的“特洛伊木马”。||

Its citizens are disenchanted with the remote machinations inside Brussels.

欧盟成员国公民已对布鲁塞尔的种种政策不抱任何幻想，

Rushdoony’s political ideas provided Ahmanson with a framework for his philanthropic machinations .

Rushdoony的政治主张给Ahmanson的慈善计划提供了框架。

Zend Studio acts as your control panel, displaying information about the inner machinations of the engine.

ZendStudio作为控制面板，显示关于引擎内部机制的信息。

You know better than anyone how vital it is to maintain the independence of the Fleet from the machinations of politicians.

保持舰队独立于政治家的阴谋是至关重要的，你比谁都清楚这一点。

It is, after all, easy to blame trade imbalances on the evil exchange rate machinations of others.

毕竟，将贸易失衡归咎于他国操纵汇率的阴谋诡计是很容易的。

But analysts predicted further machinations , either through the entry of a rival bidder or an increased offer from SABMiller.

但分析师预测还会出现进一步的“图谋”——要么是出现一位新竞购对手，要么SABMiller提高出价。

The first is that the algorithmic machinations of search engines, like the Peace of God, passeth all understanding.

第一，搜索引擎的算法诡计，就像神的平安赐予大家理解（thePeaceofGod，passethallunderstanding）。

Behind Stuttgart 21 protesters detect machinations between politicians and businessmen to suppress information and deny citizens a voice.

抗议者们已觉察到，政客和商业集团之间勾结起来封锁消息并拒绝倾听市民们的呼声。

If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of such anxious machinations , you know they make you want to run, not bond.

如果你曾经作为这种焦虑、阴谋诡计中的一位受方，你会知道他们是在让你逃之夭夭，而不是建立紧密关系。

Partly thanks to his own machinations , there is no obvious successor if Mr Berlusconi quits.

如果他辞职，目前没有明显能接替他的人，此状况部分归因于他爱使阴谋诡计。

Team Themis’s machinations were exposed before they got past the proposal stage.

忒弥斯团队的图谋还在立项阶段就被曝光了。

Your friend, meanwhile, has no need of these mental machinations .

同时，你的朋友没有心理阴谋诡计的需要。

From the news of it, it’s a full-blown tech battle, complete with behind-the-scenes machinations to sic government regulators on each other.

新闻透露这是一场全面的高科技战争，充斥着明争暗斗，双方利用政府监管机构互相攻击。

He suggests that events in the Middle East are determined largely by the machinations of three parties: America, Iran and Israel.

在他看来，中东地区大部分事件都是由美国、伊朗和以色列三方的勾心斗角所引发的。

Such secret internal machinations can of course explain almost anything. But it would be nice to have some evidence.

这个秘密的内部阴谋当然能解释几乎所有事，但有一些证据就好了。

It was, rather, a familiar maneuver that reminded many of the machinations of former dictator Ne Win.

这更像是一个花招，让人想起前独裁者奈温的伎俩。

These machinations serve as a reminder that Italy’s old ways of doing business are slow to change.

这些诡计提醒人们这种老旧的意大利经商方式改变得很慢。

This may be the type of easing from which homeowners can gain relief, not more machinations at the short end of the yield curve.

这样做其实是在变相放款货币，能让住房业主减轻负担，而且无需在收益率曲线短端策划更多行动。

Chicago, a town known for political machinations secured the personal backing of its adopted son, Mr Obama.

芝加哥这个以政治裙带风出名的城市，却得到了在这儿长大的奥巴马总统的支持。