had no legal basis for an effort to keep Comcast from limiting access to some services over its network.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

But, practically, and in some legal contexts, what they would do is they'd allow the slave the use of that money, and that's called the peculium.

但是实际上，在某些法律环境中，他们会允许奴隶使用那些钱，称为奴隶的私产。

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and in some cases, even an explicit right to death is also something that is spelled out in many legal codes.

在有些情形下，许多法律法规中也明确记录了要求死亡的权力。

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But last October, Google reached a one hundred twenty-five million dollar legal settlement to also make parts of some copyrighted books available.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

And they also seem to bear some relationship to the laws in Leviticus and Numbers. But the question is, what is the relationship between the different versions of the legal material? Some of these laws will parallel each other quite closely and others do not.

它们似乎和利未记以及民数记的律法存在,联系但问题是，这些不同版本的律法间,究竟有什么样的联系？部分律法间,彼此一致，其它则不然。

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The women have made great strides in gaining legal recognition of their rights, Albright said,they run up against some crushing realities.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

The reason the mafia thrives in countries where it's hard to write legal contracts-- let's say some new parts of the former Soviet Union or some parts of Africa the reason the mafia thrives in those environments, is that it substitutes for the law and enforces both legal and illegal contracts.

黑恶势力在那些,书面协议不受保护国家不断壮大,比如前苏联新成员国 或者非洲,为什么黑恶势力在这些地方发展壮大,因为这是法律强制力的补充,它维系所有合同,不管是不是合法的

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It presses its own themes in retelling those stories. Early laws are subject to reinterpretation. Ezekiel comes along and does some interesting things with some of the legal material that we find in Leviticus. This is all the kind of thing that tradition criticism looks at.

在复述这些故事时它加入了自己的主题，早期的法律,容易遭受重新诠释，《以西结书》在形成过程中,就对我们在《利未记》里看到的法律材料作了一些,有趣的处理，这就是源流批判学探讨的重点。

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Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.

有些篇章只是被我们粗略地认为出现于那个年代，其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口头传统,其实也许能够追溯到更久远，所以这些很可能一开始是被口头传播,后来才用文字形式记载的。

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