The prevalence of lawyers in America’s ruling elite (spotted by a Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, in the 1830s) is stronger than ever.

统治美国的精英中充斥着大量的律师（一位名叫阿列克西•德•托克维尔的法国人早在19世纪30年代就发现了这一点），眼下更是比以往任何时候都多。

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Americans too have remained much as Alexis de Tocqueville found them in the 19th century: “So many lucky men, restless in the midst of abundance.”

美国人也还停留在类似阿雷克西•托克维尔在19世纪发现他们的那样:”这么多幸运的人，在丰盛的物质中躁动不安”。

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AMERICA is the country, said Alexis DE Tocqueville, where the bonds of marriage are most respected and the concept of connubial bliss "has its highest and truest expression."

Alexis de Tocque ville曾说，在美国这个国家，婚姻的缔结是最受尊重的，婚姻幸福的观念有着最高程度和最真实的表现。

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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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Indeed if Alexis de Tocqueville is to be believed, early America was surprisingly uninventive.

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Back in the early 19th century Alexis de Tocqueville noted that American farmers viewed their holdings more like capitalists than peasants.

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He wondered if Alexis de Tocqueville had ever envisaged a scene like this.

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