And although you were a freedman, - which was lower in status than a free person-- - there were some privileges you couldn't have-- your children would be, if they were born after you'd been freed, would be free people, not freed.

虽然奴隶成为了自由人，自由人的社会地位低于自由民-,有一些权利无法享受-,自由人的孩子，如果是出生于奴隶被释放后的，则会成为自由民，而不是自由人。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He's born, in fact, twenty years before the American Civil War.

他是在美国内战结束后的二十年出生的。

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These cubs are not going to survive once they are born so the female's best strategy is to get rid of them and start anew.

一旦幼仔出生后不能生存,雌狮的最好方式,是摆脱掉它们，开始新生活。

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