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。

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

轮匆忙分裂， Varnum 大门砰地关上了一半， 另一半则在他前面匆匆忙忙。

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。