孩子并不是我们的财产，他们是自由的。

But kids are not our property. They are free.

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虽然他们的经济状况并不好，但他们是自由的。

Even if their economies are bad, they are free.

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我们崇敬他们，不仅因为他们是自由的守护者，更因为他们是奉献精神的化身：致力于追寻比自身价值更伟大的意义。

We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service: a willingness to finding meaning in something greater than themselves.

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It's a freedom that, of course, Parliament had pushed for, but now that they've got it there is some misgiving.

当然，这是一种议会推崇的自由，但是现在他们得到的只是疑虑。

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But most of the free citizens of the Roman Empire, - of Rome, were poor people-- free, and even citizens, but they were poor people who weren't part of any rich household.

但是大多数罗马帝国的自由公民，都是穷人-,他们是自由的，甚至是公民，但都是穷人，不属于富裕家户。

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In other words, liberty for the ancients was a collective good, the liberty, as he says, to resist or invade other people.

也就是说，古人的自由是集体的自由,是他们这个集体拥有抵抗和入侵他人的自由，而非每个个体。

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