A modern-day Alexis de Tocqueville might find talk of America's painful divisions baffling at first blush.

即使是现代的亚历西斯·德·托克维尔，他乍一听到有关美国痛苦分裂的传闻，可能也会十分困惑。

And now one of my favorite part of the day special shout out to Lava Heights Academy in Tocqueville, Utah, rise up.

现在是我最喜欢的特别环节之一，为犹他州托克维尔的熔岩高地学院欢呼。

Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835, W.E.B. Du Bois in 1900 and again in 1935 and the Kerner Commission in 1968, among others, enriched our national understanding of troubles we still face today.

1835年的亚历克西斯·德·托克维尔、1900年的杜波依斯、1935年的杜波依斯以及1968年的克纳委员会等，丰富了我们对我们国家今天仍然面临的问题的理解。

It was Alexis de Tocqueville, the French observer of the early American character, who recognized the danger of placing too much value on business, law and order at the expense of the higher values.

意识到以牺牲崇高价值为代价，过于重视商业、法律和秩序十分危险的，是研究早期美国的国格的法国观察家亚历克西·德·托克维尔。

Did you know Tocqueville is named for the black lava rock found on the top of a nearby mountain and it's derived from the language of the Native American Paiute Tribe that lived in the region before settlers arrived.

你知道托克维尔的名字来源于附近一座山顶上发现的黑色熔岩岩石吗？这个名字来源于印第安人派尤特部落的语言，他们在移民到来之前就生活在这个地区。

One of these, Alexis de Tocqueville, a French liberal of mildly democratic sympathies, made a journey to this country in 1831;he described in a very remarkable volume, Democracy in America, the grand experiment as he saw it.

其中之一，亚历克西斯·德·托克维尔 (Alexis de Tocqueville)，一位对民主抱有温和同情的法国自由主义者，于 1831 年访问了这个国家；他在一本非常出色的著作《美国的民主》中描述了他所看到的伟大实验。