Under that heading you might call "American Progress" came the sense of American mission: spreading liberty, spreading democracy, spreading Christianity.

在"美国式进步"的带领下,发展成为一种美国的使命,即推广自由民主,传播基督教思想

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I mean, it's always going to be Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem.

我是说，能掌控政权的总是保守党、工党和自由民主党。

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So the values that I discuss, our liberty and democracy and equality and justice.

我所探讨的价值观，我们的自由，民主，平等以及公正。

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Why can't you, we live in a democratic society with freedom of speech.

我们生活在个有言论自由的民主社会。

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In many ways Aristotle there offers, as does Plato, a certain kind of critique of the modern or even the ancient democratic theory of freedom, which is living as one likes.

亚里士多德在很多方面所提出的和柏拉图相似，都是一种对现代,或甚至古代自由民主理论的评判，也就是过一个人想过的生活。

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Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

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re seen as having betrayed our principles, re seen as no longer standing for the things that Americans think we stand for, for liberty and democracy and justice.

大家认为我们背叛了我们的原则，We’,大家认为我们，We’,不再坚持我们的主张，不再主张自由，民主和正义。

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s very interesting if you go back and you read about al-Qaeda, one of the things that you read about is that Arabs, after World War Two saw the United States as standing for values of liberty and democracy and equality.

有一点很有趣，It’,如果你回头读读看看关于基地组织的报道，肯定不难发现,二战以后，阿拉伯人,将美国视为,自由，民主，平等的象征。

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