So within a couple of generations people could move up from being the lowest slaves to two generations of being free Roman citizens.

所以几代以内,奴隶能从最低社会等级,上升两位，成为自由的罗马公民。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

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

Hobbes derives the very power of the sovereign from the natural right of each individual to do as they like in the state of nature.

他认为君主的权力源自于,人民原本在自然社会中,能自由行使的个人权力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Why can't you, we live in a democratic society with freedom of speech.

我们生活在个有言论自由的民主社会。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

That a free laborer is a mobile laborer, especially in a society like the United States that had this thing called The West, the limitless apparently to them anyway--boundless West.

自由劳动者是流动的,尤其处在美国这样的社会,有他们所说的广袤的西部,特别对他们来说,无边际的西部

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Individual freedom, although it has greatly elevated the condition of the people who have lived in free societies, inevitably permits inequalities which are the more galling, because each person is plainly free to try to improve his situation and largely responsible for the outcome.

个人自由的理念,虽然提升了自由社会中人们,的生活条件,但是不可避免的会产生烦恼和更多的焦虑,因为每个人都有极大的自由去,提升自己的生活状态,并对自己的所作所负有极大的责任

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It was an attribute of the regime of which one was a member.

因为自由意味着整个社会的自由,个体作为其中一员不能单独享有。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选