But charm alone didn't seem to make a great society, according to Tocqueville.

但仅靠魅力不足以使南方成为,一个伟大的社会,托克维尔认为

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It might not be the way they initially imagined, but one of the things that's great about being our society, being talented students have been the gifts of creative imagination as well as critical thinking.

或许这办法并不像他们原本所想的，但他们有一点是很出色的,无论是作为社会一分子还是有才能的学生,那就是批判思维和富有创新的想象。

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Well, it's around 750, a great number of the changes that moved the Greeks away from the Dark Age kind of society to the full scale polis begin.

在大约公元前七百五十年,发生了许多变化,这些变化将希腊从黑暗时代的社会形态中拽出,进而开始了全面的城邦社会

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He comments about automobiles. What he suggested is that the new invention is worthless. It's really a great line that touch our hearts. It's true that automobiles carry people flow but really humanity in society might actually be moving backwards.

他评论汽车，他表达的意思是,这个新发明是没有价值的,这真是一句触动人心的话,汽车确实载着人们去往各处,但是社会中的人性事实上却好似在倒退。

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And if you want to understand why so many white Southerners, especially in the Deep South, went to such great extents to save their slave society, remember the kinds of arguments and language used by its defenders.

如果你们想知道为何如此多的南方白种人,特别是南方腹地的人们,想要最大程度地保住他们的奴隶制社会,那就揣摩一下这些辩护者所使用的论断,和他们的语言,措辞

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