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So the status of slave was lowest, ; freed persons was next highest in Roman Law; and free people were next.
所以罗马律法中，奴隶的地位是最低的，然后是自由人;,接着是自由民。
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Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.
只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。
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Well Pete, you see, there was this free labor system and this slave labor system," blah-blah blah-blah.
皮特你知道,当时北方是自由劳动制,而南方是奴役劳动制",等等,等等
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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？
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The North and the South had roughly, as the Northern and Southern states, the Free states and Slave states, had roughly the same geographic size.
北方和南方大致上,北方和南方的各州有,自由州和蓄奴州的区别,但其地理大小总体上相同
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So this maintained, even when-- why would a person free a slave?
这一直保留到。。。,为什么主人要释放奴隶？
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But if you're a freedman you're-- the other thing I should tell you is that in Roman law if you're manumitted as a slave, you're made free, if you're manumitted in the normal way they did it, that makes you a Roman citizen, if your owner was a Roman citizen.
但如果你是自由人-,有一点我得解释一下,罗马法律规定，如果奴隶被释放了，如果是正常方法被释放的，他就会成为罗马公民，前提是他的主人是罗马公民。
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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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All tended to have a high slave-to-free ratio of population.
人口中奴隶所占的比例 都是非常高的
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In Democracy in America there's that famous passage, or passages, when Tocqueville crosses the Ohio River, from Ohio into Kentucky, from free soil into slave soil, free state into a slave state.
在托克维尔跨越俄亥俄河,从俄亥俄进入到肯塔基州,从自由之所走向奴役之地的那段游历中,为《美国民主》贡献了数段名言
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