Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

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so you pay and they'll donate money to poverty or Habitat for Humanity or some organizations like that.

你交钱而他们会把钱捐给穷人或者仁人家园或者其他类似的慈善机构。

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Because Roman legal structures-- and they even said this in Roman laws-- if you're a judge and you have a rich man and a poor man in your court, of course you're going to decide for the rich man, because the poor man has incentive to cheat; he's poor. But the rich man already has money, he doesn't have any incentive to cheat.

因为罗马法律结构。。。,甚至罗马法律中就这么写着。。。,如果你是法官，一个穷人和一个富人，同时出现在法庭上，你当然会偏袒富人，因为穷人有欺骗的动机，贫穷;,而富人已经很有钱了，没有动机再去行骗。

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Becasue the rich are getting rich more rapidly than the poor who are benefiting but not as rapidly, so you get inequalities inceasing on variety of dismensions which has political implications and which has the implications for how fast the poor benefit from the economic growth.

因为有钱人更加有钱,而穷人却更穷,所以地区不同,不平等现象的程度也不同,有些地区有政策帮助,有些地区的穷人还是可以,从经济增长中获益。

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because the rich and the poor brush shoulders every single day.

因为穷人和富人每天都在并肩而行。

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