Freedom was a kind of an accident that came about because the usual ways of doing things were not possible.

自由的产生和发展是非常偶然的,因为照正常发展是不可能出现的

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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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Into some of that space, towns and cities reappeared and with them new supports for freedom.

在那些地方,城市和城镇得以再度兴起,自由的思想也得到进一步发展

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The ideas which I learned often with student pairs with rabbis who can give their own ideas and it's very much development of ideas and really free flowing, that very wonderful It's wonderful institutions.

许多观点常常是我和学生同伴,和有自己独到见解的牧师讨论取得的,而且它们都对一些观点做了很好的发展,非常自由，非常棒,它们都是非常好的机构。

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The government has liberized the economy and that has of course been playing a role but the growth acceleration started almost a decade before that, so the factors are a little more complex.

印度政府让经济自由发展,这一决策显然是起了作用的,但在这一决策出现约10年前,印度经济的加速发展便开始了,所以经济腾飞的原因还比较复杂。

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These conditions permitted a development of institutions and habits needed for freedom, even as they also made Europe vulnerable to conquests and to extinction, and Europe was almost extinguished practically before there was a Europe; very early in its history.

这些恰恰是自由的形成和发展,需要的的制度和特征,尽管这也使欧洲,在外敌入侵时变的不堪一击,实际上,在它早期的历史中,欧洲在尚未形成前就差点消失

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