Though only forty-three years old he was well versed in the art of practical politics.

他虽然只有四十三岁，却精通实用政治的艺术。

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.

实用的政治在于忽视事实， 但教育和政治是两种不同且经常相互矛盾的事物。

But this could only be accomplished by administrative decree and is scarcely practical politics under a system of free wage-bargaining.

但这只能通过行政命令来实现，而且在自由工资谈判制度下几乎不是实际的政治。

Small in stature, sensitive in feelings, studious in habits, he was no man for the rough and tumble of practical politics.

身材矮小，感情敏感，习惯好学，他不适合实际政治的混乱和混乱。

Zeinab Badawi's words perhaps make it clear why the union of Egypt and Sudan just under three thousand years ago was easier to achieve in the sculpted form of Taharqo's sphinx, than in the unstable world of practical politics.

也许这能解释为什么三千年前，苏丹与埃及的联合更容易在雕像中体现，而难以在政治动荡的现实世界实现。