Fraud,insecurity and the weather all threaten to make next month's run-off elections difficult for one of the world's newest democracies.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Even the citizens of our fellow democracies see us as morally bankrupt Question: How did things go so badly wrong?

即使我们民主联盟国家的公民,都觉得我们已经道德沦丧,问您一个问题，为什么事情会发展成这样？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"We are the world's two largest democracies,". "We have a range of shared values and ideals.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Not building our own ties to India, to Japan, to Australia, to the other liberal democracies in Asia.

不和印度建立关系，不和日本，澳大利亚建立关系，不和其他亚洲自由民主国家打交道。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

He has criticized what he sees as the excessive American penchant for foreign military intervention and over-ambitious efforts to re-make other countries as western-style democracies.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

People living in democracies are generally significantly happier than people living in dictatorships.

生活在民主制度下的人通常明显,比生活在独裁制度下的人更快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"It's a conundrum." says Jonathan Schanzer. He is Vice President of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and author of Hamas vs Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

So democracies of some sort existed in different places.

所以各地存在不同的民主制度。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"I know of few,if any,mature democracies in the world where faced with the threat of violence and violence itself that turnout for the voters would have been higher than it was here Thursday,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

When democracy is invented it will have its moment and it will spread, and there will be numerous democracies but they will never be the majority of the poleis.

当民主的理念提出以后,它会不断的蔓延,会有很多民主制国家,应运而生,然而大多数的城邦却不是民主的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Clifford May at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies says he hopes the Obama administration understands the importance of a regional approach, and of trying to encourage India and Pakistan to work together."

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

Is that type the common man ? is it found in democracies; those of acquired taste and money as in aristocracies; the warrior; ? or even the priest as in theocracies?

那属于一般大众类型吗,存在于民主之中吗;,或是存于那些得体且富有的,如贵族，战士或甚至是神父中;,如同神权政治吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

NATO is an alliance of democracies. And many of its members have had a lot of trouble convincing their parliaments, and their people, to spend money on defense during what seems like a peaceful time in Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

USA and India, in spite of being... world's largest democracies have not always have warm relations.

毕竟世界上的民主大国。,之间的关系,经常是不好的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But General McChrystal has warned that more are needed. On the contested outcome of last month's presidential election in Afghanistan, Spanta said voting "irregularities" are not unusual in emerging democracies and that the Independent Electoral Commission and the U.N.-supported Election Complaint Commission are working to address the complaints and recount some of the ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29