At each cross-section, people are either willing to use a certain sign in a certain way or they're not.

在每一个横街面上，人们可以自由的,以自己的方式使用符号。

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But, on the other hand, the right to personal dignity and the right to free determination

但是另一方面，人们还有维护尊严，自由抉择的权利，

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The desire not to oppress others may be decent but at the same time the people have to be taught or educated how to defend their liberty.

不愿意压迫别人这挺不错,但与此同时仍需要教导人们,怎样去守卫他们的自由。

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Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

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It's a violation of people's liberty for the government to force everyone whether they want to or not to put aside some earnings today for the sake of their retirement.

这侵犯了人们的自由,因为政府强迫所有人，不管愿不愿意,都得储蓄一部分当前收入，留到退休时用。

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The SEC was very controversial at first because it was seen as interfering with business and the U.S. Has been built on principles of individual freedom; this seemed like unnecessary government intrusion.

起初,证券交易委员会引起了许多争议,因为人们认为它会干扰商业运作,个人自由是美国的立国之本,政府的干预似乎并非必要

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Nobody sought or planned for freedom, but in the spaces that were left by the endless conflicts among secular rulers and between them and the Church, there was room for freedom to grow.

人们并没有刻意追求自由,但是在无尽的世俗冲突中,在君王与宗教的斗争中,自由得以在狭小的空间滋养生长

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But other people, in fact probably a larger percentage, default to the top option here: that these are personal health issues rather then public health issues; that people are making choices about what they eat, if they make bad choices it's their fault.

不过另一些人,确切说是很大一部分人,把问题归咎于以上几个选项,这是个人健康问题而不是公共健康问题,人们自由选择想吃的东西,即使做了不正确的选择也是他们自己的错

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I think that as organizations grow, a lot of the issues and structure that's put in place is put there because a comfort level breaks down and people communicating freely in a way that they can when they're friends.

随着企业规模的扩大，会产生许多问题,需要某种组织结构,因为那种缓和的关系被打破,人们可以自由交谈,就像好友一般。

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and Maybe this will go a little bit of the distance towards answering it Human beings learn that they were able to do that, that they are free moral agents. They find that out.

这是真的，还有，It，is，true—,或者距找到答案还有一段路程,人们才知道他们能够这样做，他们是有自由道义的个体，他们发现了这点。

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In America, like, people are free to dress up how they like and,

在美国，人们的穿着打扮非常自由，

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Liberty means the absence of constraints or impediments to action.

现代自由意味着人们的行动,将免于他人的妨碍或是国家的强制约束。

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Individual freedom, although it has greatly elevated the condition of the people who have lived in free societies, inevitably permits inequalities which are the more galling, because each person is plainly free to try to improve his situation and largely responsible for the outcome.

个人自由的理念,虽然提升了自由社会中人们,的生活条件,但是不可避免的会产生烦恼和更多的焦虑,因为每个人都有极大的自由去,提升自己的生活状态,并对自己的所作所负有极大的责任

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So, what starts out as a seemingly benign state of nature where everyone is free and yet where there is a law and the law respects people's rights, and those rights are so powerful that they're unalienable.

乍一看自然状态是十分良善的,人人皆自由，但还有自然法,自然法尊重人们的权利，而这些权利是如此强大，它们是不可剥夺的。

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So I guess, by doing this we kind of create a culture where people just talk to each other about stuff and get what each other is thinking more clearly than they would if the organization is more bureaucratic or if like people wouldn't be heard.

这样一来,公司的文化也就形成了,人们可以自由交谈,在Facebook比在,官僚机构,或者比在个人观点不被重视的地方,能更好地了解彼此的想法。

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