If a nation is essentially disunited, it is left to the government to hold it together.

如果一个国家实际上处于分裂状态，使之联合起来就是政府的事了。

A disunited nation therefore has to incur unduly high costs of government.

因此，一个处于分裂的国家必须要支付过高的行政管理费用。

If a nation is essentialy disunited, it is left to the government to hold it together.

如果一个国家实际上处于分裂状态，使之联合起来就是政府的事了。

The greatest danger in those cold-war years was to show the Soviet enemy a soft, disunited front.

冷战岁月中最大的危险，是向劲敌苏联暴露出软弱分裂的一面。

Again the outline hastily disunited and the Varnum gate slammed on one half while the other hurried on ahead of him.

轮廓再次匆忙分裂， Varnum 大门砰地关上了一半， 而另一半则在他前面匆匆忙忙。

Shakespeare was also brave enough to warn his benefactor about the dangers of a disunited  realm in King Lear, which was first produced in 1606 as well.

莎士比亚在《李尔王》中也勇敢地警告他的恩人， 国家分裂的危险，该剧同样于 1606 年首次上演。

But if a nation is disunited, the government cannot be sure that the actions of the people will be in the interests of the nation; and it will have to watch, check, and control the people accordingly.

但是，如果一个国家处于分裂状态，政府不能相信人民的行动有利于国家，那么政府就不得不对人民进行监督、检查和控制。

If they cannot disunite them by domestic broils, then they engage their neighbours against them, and make them set on foot some old pretensions, which are never wanting to princes when they have occasion for them.

如果他们不能通过国内的纷争来瓦解他们，那么他们就会让他们的邻国反对他们，并让他们采取一些旧的自负，这些自负是王子们在需要的时候永远不会想要的。