“做圣诞老人比做守财奴要容易的多”，吉姆•库伯(Jim Cooper)嘟囔着埋怨道。

"IT's a lot easier to be Santa than Scrooge," harrumphs Jim Cooper.

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贫穷人条件多，守财奴样样要。

The poor man requires abundance, the miser eVery abundancething.

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He wasn't that widely read, I must admit, but it shows us how far pro-slavery could ultimately go.

我必须承认,他的作品流传不广,但他向人们展示了亲奴主义者可以走多远

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Almost all pro-slavery writers at one point or another will dip into the Old Testament, or dip into the New Testament they especially would dip to the Old to show how slavery is an ancient and venerable institution.

几乎所有的亲奴主义作家,都或多或少地接触过《旧约》,或阅读过《新约》,特别是《旧约》,因为他们,需要证明奴隶制是一个古老而庄严的制度

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