Now for generations the Apology has stood out as a symbol for the violation of free expression.

几个世纪以来，《苏格拉底自辩篇》,象征着对自由表述的侵害。

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by Montgolfier in the late eighteenth century, and the balloon becomes a sort of symbol of perhaps liberty.

在十八世纪末发明的,而从此热气球也成了某种自由的象征

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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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