主题：【写沈崇ing旁白】一言以蔽之1 吕思勉 -- 陈郢客

仅供你参考，也希望河友帮忙辨析：

Politician：多指政客，我在日常生活中，美国的朋友用这个词汇大都带贬义。去年总统竞选，我的美国房东老太就常很鄙夷地说希拉里是typical politician。从字典给的释义来看，也可指政治家，或政治学家。

Statesman：释义----a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs我觉得可以用来对应“政治家”，比如字典给的例句：

Abraham Lincoln was a great statesman. 这里就不会用Politician。

给你一些有趣的句子，从Wikipedia对Statesman的解释摘过来的：

Aristotle -- "What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."

Harry S. Truman -- "A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."

James Freeman Clarke -- "A politician thinks about the next elections — the stateman thinks about the next generations."

----这些话和孔老夫子的言论是不是有异曲同工之妙？

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