So when I get back, I associate the flag with a very negative, that was the yonder side of American democracy.

之后，我就总会把国旗和负面的东西联系在一起，那也是美国民主的另一面。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

United States is among the most inegalitarian society as far as the distribution of wealth of all the advanced democracies.

在所有发达的民主国家之中,美国财富分配不均的问题最为严重。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And for Americans, all our democratic experience and do I have to put a tie on for this event or not?

美国人也如此,我们都参与民主政治,知道在什么场合需要系领带,比如现在

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

You don't all live in America, but a lot of you live in a democracy.

你们中的人并不全都生活在美国,但是你们中许多人生活在民主社会中

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And Athens was until only fairly recent times in human history the most famous democracy that ever existed. I say fairly recent times until you know the American democracy.

而雅典是直到近期为止,一直是人类历史上曾存在过,最著名的民主之城，我所谓的近期,当然是指在美国民主出现之前。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In Alexis de Tocqueville's great Democracy in America, which he published in 1831,or published in 1837, after his famous nine-month tour of the United States the most famous book, travel book, ever written about America, by a foreigner.

亚利西斯·德·托克维尔的著作《美国民主》,在1831年,或者1837年出版,这是本他在美国周游了九个月之后,写成的游记,在所有由外国作家执笔,所著的关于美国的书中享有盛誉

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选