Well if you have a slave, that slave can't actually sign contracts.

如果你有一个奴隶，但法律规定奴隶不能签署合同。

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Soil was being eroded and wasted along the Eastern seaboard, and they were using up the great soils of the Mississippi Valley and over time that slave system just somehow wasn't going to work out.

东部沿海地区的土地因被侵蚀而荒废掉,密西西比河谷地区的土地资源即将被耗尽,但就在这种情况下,奴隶制依然能维持南方的经济

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If you think about it, it means that I'm a slave, that I don't own myself.

仔细想想，这就意味着我是一个奴隶，我不是自己的主人。

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He couldn't legally own the money; his master legally owned everything the slave owned.

但法律上那些钱不属于他;,主人拥有他的一切。

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In fact,you're pretty sure that Steve wasn't a slave.

你很确定Steve并不是奴隶。

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And when I go to the A-1 Toyota for my service or to buy my new Camry, which I've done every four years for the last two decades, I don't always think of a slave market but it does occur to me that--.

当我去丰田A1店,接受服务或购买我的新佳美的时候,过去二十年中我每四年都会去一次,我不是总会联想到奴隶市场,但我确实曾经那么想过

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