软弱无力的人

In the latter case their government is weaker and more insecure, because it rests entirely on the goodwill of those citizens who are raised to the magistracy, and who, especially in troubled times, can destroy the government with great ease, either by intrigue or open defiance; and the prince has not the chance amid tumults to exercise absolute authority, because the citizens and subjects, accustomed to receive orders from magistrates, are not of a mind to obey him amid these confusions, and there will always be in doubtful times a scarcity of men whom he can trust.

在后一种场合，君主的地位是更加软弱无力和更加危险的，因为他们完全依靠那些被任命当官的人们的意志；而后者，特别是在危难时期，不是采取行动反对君主就是拒不服从君主，这就很容易篡权夺位。君主在危难中已经来不及行使绝对的权力了，因为市民和属民已经接受官吏的命令惯了，在这种危急之秋不会服从君主的命令，而且在动荡不安之日，君主往往缺乏自己能够信赖的人。这种君主不能够以太平时期所看到的情况作为根据。

To want to be liked is to be feeble; doubly so if the liking is being done by feckless Europeans.

想要得到外人的好感，就是软弱无力，如果"外人"是不中用的欧洲人，那就尤其如此。

If you are too attached to them, your worship will be misdirected, fickle, and weak.

你假若太依附人，你的敬拜便会失去目标，变幻无常，和软弱无力了。

What are your goals and strategies for growth?

你的成长目标和策略是什么？

And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven irits of God, and the seven star I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

3：1 你要写信给撒狄教会的使者，说，那有神的七灵和七星的，说，我知道你的行为，按名你是活的，其实是死的。