Now, Tocqueville was of course responding from his own kind of French aristocratic heart, to some extent.

这里托克维尔当然或多或少是站在自己,作为一名法国贵族的角度来发表评论的

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Tocqueville couldn't resist it, it was the thing he couldn't stop writing about in Democracy in America, and he was only observing in 1831.

托克维尔抗拒不了,这使他情不自禁的写下,《美国的民主》这部著作,他仅了解1831年的美国

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For thinkers like Tocqueville for example regimes are embedded in the deep structures of human history that have determined over long centuries the shape of our political institutions and the way we think about them.

举例来说，对于像托克维尔之类的思想家而言,政体内嵌于人类历史的结构深处,许多世纪以来决定了,我们政治机构的形态,及我们对它们的看法。

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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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For the first time"--this was, of course, the French aristocrat de Tocqueville "For the first time we have had the chance to examine the effect that slavery produces on a society.

第一次",这位托克维尔即是,法国的那位贵族德·托克维尔,"第一次我们有机会仔细观察,奴隶制对一个社会造成的影响

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In Democracy in America there's that famous passage, or passages, when Tocqueville crosses the Ohio River, from Ohio into Kentucky, from free soil into slave soil, free state into a slave state.

在托克维尔跨越俄亥俄河,从俄亥俄进入到肯塔基州,从自由之所走向奴役之地的那段游历中,为《美国民主》贡献了数段名言

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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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Political philosophy is the oldest of the social sciences and it can boast a wealth of heavy hitters from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli Hobbes Hegel Tocqueville Nietzsche and so on.

政治哲学是社会科学中,最古老的学科,且会触及大量重棒人物,从柏拉图，亚里士多德到马奇亚维利，贺伯斯,及黑格尔，托克维尔，尼采等人。

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There are certainly echoes of this reading of Aristotle as a teacher of participatory republican government in the later writings of democratic thinkers from Tocqueville to Hannah Arendt.

有不少声音响应,这种对亚里士多德的解读,将他视为是参与式共和政府的恩师,例如日后民主思想家,托克维尔及，Hannah，Arendt的著作。

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