Particularly if you're of equal status, you have a common goal, and you have social support makes you like people more.

尤其是你们处于平等的社会地位，你们有共同的目标，有社会支持,这会使得你更喜欢别人。

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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。

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What worries you about America today, terrorism, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, economy, the deficit, medicare, social security or America's place in the world, which many say sliping or begining to slip?

今天的美国哪些地方让你担心呢，恐怖主义，对伊拉克和阿富汗战争，经济，赤字，医疗保险，社会保障,还是美国的国际地位，有人称美国的地位正在或开始下滑？

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So you'd have a patron who would be higher class, richer, more powerful, have some political power, and you would be loyal to your patron, and your patron would then represent you in court, try to get you jobs, try to get you more business, do all the kinds of things that patrons do for their clients.

要找个比你社会地位高，比你有钱有权，有一定政治影响力的庇护人，你也要忠诚于他，庇护人会在法庭上代表你，帮你找工作，帮你介绍生意，各种庇护人为被庇护人做的事。

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