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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The democratic faction he tells us believes because all are equal in some respects they should be equal in all respects.

他告诉我们，民主派系相信因为所有人,在某些方面都平等,他们应该在各方面皆平等。

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Why can't you, we live in a democratic society with freedom of speech.

我们生活在个有言论自由的民主社会。

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But when we build our military, when we promote democracy, when we operate in internationa institutions, when we try to persuade other nations to do what we want.

但当我们壮大军事力量时，当我们宣扬民主，当我们在国际机构处理事务时，当我们试图说服其他国家,听从我们时。

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One theme that we've talked about in this course is corporate democracy.

我们在课程中曾经讨论过的一个主题是,企业民主。

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We overlook, we conveniently overlook a number of facts about him, his hostility to democracy, we'll see that in the Republic but we've seen it already to some degree in the Apology.

我们忽略了,很轻易就忽略掉许多关于他的事实，他对民主的敌视，将在《理想国》中详读,但我们已能在《苏格拉底自辩篇》中,看出端倪。

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Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

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