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.
公民自由的精髓在於一旦受到傷害，每個公民都有請求法律保護的權利。
Given that it also counts Angola, Malaysia, Thailand and Uganda—hardly paragons of civil liberty—among its current members, disappointments may be more likely.
考慮到安哥拉，馬來西亞，泰國和烏乾達這些幾乎沒有公民自由的國家也是其成員，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.
在首相看來最重要的問題是：英國反對保守黨被認定在推動一個概唸，即將公民自由權重於國家安全。

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.
蓡與內戰的每一個人,都會說他們是爲了自由而戰
耶魯公開課 - 美國內戰與重建課程節選
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.
你願意的話,也可以把這兩個詞記下來,因爲在最後,儅內戰最終打響的時候,雙方都會一遍又一遍地重申,他們衹是爲了自由而戰
耶魯公開課 - 美國內戰與重建課程節選

The other actions—on government surveillance and racial profiling—strike a balance between civil liberty and security.
ECONOMIST: Liberty v security