The enemies of liberal democracy, they have a method.

自由民主的敌人， 他们有办法。

Adenauer envisaged a humble Germany able to take its place among other liberal democracies.

阿登纳设想一个谦虚的德国能够在其他自由民主国家中占据一席之地。

As a result, most Western nations adopted a longstanding form of government called liberal democracy.

结果，大多数西方国家采用了一种长期存在的政府形式，称为自由民主。

They tell me with some measure of shame that they're closeted in our liberal democracies.

他们带着某种程度的羞愧告诉我，他们在我们的自由民主国家中被封闭了。

Liberal democracies helped bring stability to the nations that adopted them.

自由民主制有助于为采用它们的国家带来稳定。

First, liberal democracies accept that society is full of many, often crosscutting divisions that generate conflict.

首先，自由民主国家承认社会充满许多经常产生冲突的交叉分歧。

But my point is, if liberal democracy is the end of history, then there's a massive paradox or contradiction here.

但我的观点是， 如果自由民主是历史的终结，那么这里就存在巨大的悖论或矛盾。

But whether these politicians are sincere believers or manipulative opportunists, the dynamics they unleash can be profoundly destabilizing for liberal democracy.

但是，无论这些政客是真诚的信徒还是操纵性的机会主义者，他们释放的动力都可能对自由民主产生深刻的不稳定。

Finally, liberal democracies rely on the rule of law and the protection of minority rights, as specified in constitutions and legal statutes.

最后，自由民主依赖于法治和对少数权利的保护，正如宪法和法律法规所规定的那样。

Singapore is far from being a liberal democracy—either Lee or his son have been prime minister for most of the city-state's existence.

新加坡远非一个自由民主国家——在这个城邦存在的大部分时间里，李光耀或他的儿子一直担任总理。

Both of those countries risked losing billions of euros in eu funds over their tussles with Brussels for flouting the norms of liberal democracies.

这两个国家都冒着在与布鲁塞尔的争斗中损失数十亿欧元的欧盟资金的风险，因为它们蔑视自由民主国家的规范。

I want to come back to the account you offer in the book of this delicate symbiosis between the market economy and liberal democracy.

我想回到你在书中对市场经济和自由民主之间微妙共生的描述。

In liberal democracies, it's based on the ideals that knowledge is important, that expression should be free and that reliable information is good for society.

在自由民主国家， 它基于这样的理想，即知识很重要， 表达应该是自由的，可靠的信息对社会有益。

People should live up to the ideals on which liberal democracy is based rather than abandoning them because they are so difficult to achieve, he says.

他说，人们应该践行自由民主所基于的理想， 而不是放弃它们， 因为它们很难实现。

It's unquestionable that the survival of liberal democracy requires a functioning public sphere in which wrongdoings and injustices can be investigated and brought to public attention.

毫无疑问，自由民主的生存需要一个正常运转的公共领域，可以对不法行为和不公正进行调查并引起公众关注。

They worry it will rode Israel's claim to be a liberal democracy and that will damage the economy, and infringe upon their freedoms of expression, worship, and the right to demonstrate.

他们担心这会推翻以色列称其会变成一个自由的民主国家的声明，并且会破坏经济发展，其次还会侵犯人们言论自由、敬神和游行的权利。

So this book, as you discussed at the beginning of this conversation, is about the crisis of democratic capitalism, about this highly productive symbiosis of market economy and liberal democracy.

所以这本书， 正如你在这次谈话开始时所讨论的，是关于民主资本主义的危机，关于市场经济和自由民主的这种高效共生。

In other words, you can't really separate the kind of liberal democracy that's operating behind the separation wall and the occupation, which then bleeds into the efforts to be a liberal democracy in other respects.

换句话说，你无法真正将在隔离墙后面运作的那种自由民主与占领区分开来，占领会影响其他方面的自由民主努力。