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

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In many ways Aristotle there offers, as does Plato, a certain kind of critique of the modern or even the ancient democratic theory of freedom, which is living as one likes.

亚里士多德在很多方面所提出的和柏拉图相似，都是一种对现代,或甚至古代自由民主理论的评判，也就是过一个人想过的生活。

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They were very suspicious of the democratic tendencies, or so it seemed, the democratic tendencies of that northern society which was spreading literacy more widely, and eventually the right to vote more widely, at least among white people.

他们也对民主倾向表示怀疑,事实就是如此,有着民主倾向的北方社会,文化教育的开展更为广泛,因而更广大人民有着投票权,至少大部分白人有投票权

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Maybe you want to argue it and we could have a discussion, but it might mean that American democracy, or democracy of any kind, helps to produce a particular kind of democratic soul.

也许你想争辩，果真如此,我们可以另作讨论，但那也许意谓着,美式民主，或任何一种民主，协助产生了,特定种类的民主灵魂。

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