civil liberty

基本解释

The very essence of civil liberty consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws whenever he suffers an injury.
公民自由的精髓在于一旦受到伤害，每个公民都有请求法律保护的权利。
Given that it also counts Angola, Malaysia, Thailand and Uganda—hardly paragons of civil liberty—among its current members, disappointments may be more likely.
考虑到安哥拉，马来西亚，泰国和乌干达这些几乎没有公民自由的国家也是其成员，就更加令人失望了。
What seemed to matter most to the prime minister was that the opposition Conservatives could be portrayed as putting wishy-washy concepts of civil liberty before national security.
在首相看来最重要的问题是：英国反对保守党被认定在推动一个概念，即将公民自由权重于国家安全。

And though I now sink out of view and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I have gone."
Everybody in the Civil War will say they're fighting for liberty.
参与内战的每一个人,都会说他们是为了自由而战
耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选
That could be an epigraph on this course, if you like, because in the end when this Civil War will finally come both sides will say over and over and over again that they are only fighting for liberty.
你愿意的话,也可以把这两个词记下来,因为在最后,当内战最终打响的时候,双方都会一遍又一遍地重申,他们只是为了自由而战
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The other actions—on government surveillance and racial profiling—strike a balance between civil liberty and security.
ECONOMIST: Liberty v security