The important names are Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau, but there were many, many others.

重要的名字是孟德斯鸠、伏尔泰和卢梭， 但还有很多很多其他。

He was impressed with Montesquieu's principle of the separation of government powers.

他孟德斯鸠的权分立原则印象深刻。

As his own hard taskmaster, he studied Locke, Hume, Montesquieu, and other political philosophers.

作为自己严苛的导师, 他学习洛克、休谟、孟德斯鸠和其他治哲学家。

It was an odd volume of Montesquieu's Voyage au temple de Guide, in a binding at least a century old.

这是一本奇怪的孟德斯鸠的《指南之航海记》， 装订至少有一个世纪的历史。

Montesquieu's work influenced the revolutions in the late 1700s, changing how people set up their  republican governments and influencing how we see government today.

孟德斯鸠的著作影响 1700 年代末的革命，改们建立共和府的式，并影响我们今府的看法。

Isilda's grandfather must have been the son or the grandson of the French servant who wrote his diary in an odd volume of Montesquieu's works.

伊西尔达的祖父一定是法国仆的儿子或孙子， 他的日记写在孟德斯鸠作品的奇异卷本中。

Or they may try all these without having read Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws, Rousseau's The Social Contract, and Locke's second treatise Of Civil Government.

或者，他们可能在没有读过孟德斯鸠的《法律精神》、卢梭的《社会契约论》和洛克的第二篇《公民府》论文的情况下尝试所有这些。

Jefferson not only collected books, he read them with an unquenchable appetite - Cicero in Latin, Plato in Greek, Montesquieu in French, Cervantes in Spanish.

杰斐逊不仅收集书籍, 还以无法抑制的胃口阅读书籍 - - 西塞罗的拉丁文、柏拉图的希腊文、孟德斯鸠的法文、塞万提斯的西班牙文。

Here's how Montesquieu put it. He said, " A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend."

孟德斯鸠是这么说的。他说：“真正良善的会像帮助朋友一般，迅速地最无关的陌生施以援手。”

The Spirit  of the Laws was so controversial that the Catholic Church banned the book only three years after  it was published, but even they could not stop Montesquieu's ideas.

《法律的精神》引起如此大的争议，以至于主教会在该书出版仅三年后就禁止这本书，但即使他们也无法阻止孟德斯鸠的思想。

The high rate of interest among all Mahometan nations is accounted for by M. Montesquieu, not from their poverty, but partly from this, and partly from the difficulty of recovering the money.

孟德斯鸠先生解释所有伊斯兰教国家的高利率，不是因为他们的贫穷，而是部分原因在于此，部分原因在于收回货币的困难。

Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau believed that the world was an object of study and that people could understand and control the world by means of reason and empirical research.

启蒙思想家, 如伏尔泰、孟德斯鸠、洛克、霍布斯和卢梭认为, 世界是一个研究象, 们可以通过理性和实证研究来理解和控制世界。

Although he hoped to be a doctor, Hamilton read widely and became as familiar with the writings of classical antiquity as he did with the Enlightenment philosophy of thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, and Montesquieu.

尽管汉密尔顿希望成为一名医生，但他广泛阅读并熟悉古典古代著作，就像他熟悉约翰·洛克、大卫·休谟和孟德斯鸠等思想家的启蒙哲学一样。

Branches of Government Although it may seem commonplace to us today,   separating power within the government is a relatively new idea that took hold during  the Enlightenment with the help of a French philosopher known as Montesquieu.

4. 府部门 尽管今我们来说这似乎很常见，但府内部的权力分离是一个相较新的想法，它是在启蒙运动期间在法国哲学家孟德斯鸠的帮助下流行起来的。