This God is one who brings things into being, whether it's a cosmos from chaos, or now a new nation from a band of runaway slaves.

这个上帝使是一切得以存在的根源，不论是由混乱而来的宇宙秩序，或者是由一帮逃窜奴隶而来的新国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Slaves, be honorable, be dutiful" be obedient is usually the word in the King James "Slaves, be obedient to your masters."

奴隶,是职责所在,是光荣而神圣的,"服从"是詹姆士王常用的词语,奴隶,服从你们的主人

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It's not the case that some people are born to be kings and others are born to be serfs.

并不是一些人天生就是君王,而另一些人天生就是奴隶。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C. world, when people could have these child slaves.

在某一时刻，他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼，那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

One of the things that come with the development of this kind of agriculture as the polis is coming into being is slavery.

这种小家庭农业的发展,是随着各城邦开始采用,奴隶制度而发展起来的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If slavery is natural, and if nature intends to distinguish the slave from the unfree, the free from the unfree, ? how can nature miss the mark?

如果奴役是自然的演变，而自然倾向于,将奴隶从不自由的人中区别出来，将自由从不自由中区别出来，自然如何会偏离正轨？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So, you have to feed the slave all year round to work only a small part of the time, that's not very profitable.

你不得不整年的喂养奴隶,而他们只有少量时间在工作,这是很不划算的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Their concern was not the conditions of blacks but what slavery did to whites; and usually they ended up in the same situation as Colcott Jones.

他们从不为黑人着想,而只关心奴隶对白人的影响,他们最终的下场都与考克特.琼斯一样

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It would be far nearer the truth to say that some are born with saddles on their backs and others booted and spurred to ride them."

这样说也许更贴切,有些人生来就烙有奴隶的印记,而有些人生来就是统治他们的"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

What do we mean when we use that phrase 'slave society'?

而'奴隶社会'指的又是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Dropped out, Junior Year, to fight, to destroy slavery.

在高年级辍学,为了摧毁奴隶制而战斗

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

If Frederick Jackson Turner had anything right in "The Frontier Thesis", although he didn't pay hardly any attention to the South, this idea of a safety valve of a West to move to was surely there for slavery.

如果弗雷德里克·杰克逊·特纳,在《边境论》中有什么正确的言论,那就是,尽管他对南方几乎没有施以任何关注,即这个西进运动是一道安全阀的构想,显然是为奴隶制而设的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

There are plenty of pro-slavery writers who also, to some extent, whether out of guilt or out of awareness, saw slavery as wrong, but they saw it as a problem more for white people than for black people.

还有一些亲奴制的作者,在某种程度上,或不知廉耻或未曾意识到,他们错误地看待了奴隶制,他们更看重奴隶制对白人的影响,而不是对黑人种族本身的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now, just to give you a sense of how cold and calculated this business was, and how in many ways the first defense or justification of slavery in America is of course it certainly is by the late Antebellum Period it is an unabashed economic defense, as we'll see.

以上只是为了让你们体会到,这种交易是如何的冷酷而精明,以及战前后期第一次,美国奴隶制度的保卫与正名之战,不管怎么看,都毫无疑问,是一场赤裸裸的利益保卫战,正如我们所见

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I mean, they live in the house, they get fed,probably with everybody else, they work with the master; the difference being that they are slaves rather than free men.

他们住在奴隶主家,他们和大家一起吃饭,他们和主人一起耕作,唯一不同之处在于,他们是奴隶而不是自由人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Almost all pro-slavery writers at one point or another will dip into the Old Testament, or dip into the New Testament they especially would dip to the Old to show how slavery is an ancient and venerable institution.

几乎所有的亲奴主义作家,都或多或少地接触过《旧约》,或阅读过《新约》,特别是《旧约》,因为他们,需要证明奴隶制是一个古老而庄严的制度

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选