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。

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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。

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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

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