Then Iran trumped the West by sponsoring a conference of Holocaust deniers, a form of speech punished as criminal almost everywhere in Europe.

接着伊朗又主办了一次大屠杀否定者的国际会议，令西方更为窘迫。而这样的论调在绝大多数欧洲国家都会受 到刑事处罚。

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Indeed, Brown, for whom America remains “Britain’s most important bilateral relationship,” recently blocked his foreign secretary, David Miliband, from delivering a speech that he considered excessively pro-Europe.

事实上，对布朗来说，美国仍然是“英国最重要的双边伙伴”，也正是基于这一认 识，不久前他阻止了外交大臣戴维·米利班德发表一次被认为是过于亲欧的讲话。

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It was obvious that the conference organizers’ goal was to revive religious and political speech in order to find a middle ground between Islamic faith and democracy.

很显然，会议组织者的目标是想重新掀起有关宗教和政治的讨论，以便在伊斯兰信仰和民主之间寻找一种平衡。

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The world’s different legal systems have never been in much agreement about the boundaries of free speech.

世界上不同的法律体系在言论自由的界限上从未如此一致过。

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The point of departure for Western students – freedom of speech and assembly, ideological pluralism, and a democratic political system – was, for their Eastern colleagues, a distant objective that they were unlikely to achieve.

西方学生的出发点—言论和集会的自由、意识形态多样化和民主政治体制—对于他们的东方同侪而言几乎是个遥不可及的目标。

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