They didn't become a free man, they became a freed man, and that was legally different.

他们不是自由民，他们是自由人，法律上是不同的。

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In a stunning admission, he says, listen to this, that "while nature may intend to distinguish the free man from the slave," he says, "the opposite often results.

听听这一段，精彩的坦承谈话，他说：，“虽然自然可能倾向于,将自由人从奴隶中区别出来，但常是事与愿违。

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When they're through and had reached their peak, their notion of monarchy is something fit for barbarians, but not for Greeks. A free man may not live under a monarchy, and the roots of that, I think, are visible in Homer.

当他们赢得竞争,到达权利的顶峰时,他们所谓的君主制其实更适合于异邦人,而不是希腊人,君主统治下不存在自由人,这个想法的根源可以在《荷马史诗》中找到

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The idea that if labor is left free then that common man always has a chance.

这个观点表明如果劳动是自由的,那么平民始终有希望

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And the Lord God commanded the man saying, 'Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat.'" His first thought is what are you going to eat?

上帝命令人们道，“你可以随意吃花园里的树木‘,他最先考虑的就是人要吃什么东西？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Is it not palpably nearer the truth to say that no man was ever born free and that no two men were ever born equal?

是否应该说,没有人生来就是自由的,也不可能人人生下来都是平等的

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The Athenians and the Romans," he says, "were free, that is they were free commonwealths, not that any particular man had the liberty to resist his own representative but that his representative had the liberty to resist or invade other people."

霍布斯说，希腊人和罗马人都是自由的，因为他们身在自由的共和国里，他们单独的个体,是没有自由反抗他所选的代表的,但他所选的代表,却有抵抗或是入侵他人的自由“

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