出生在一个有三个兄弟的家庭，大卫被教育要重视分享意识。

Born into a family with three brothers, David was brought up to value the sense of sharing.

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在贫穷的社会里，人们要孩子是为了通过增加家庭工作人员的数量和在他们年老的时候为父母提供支持，改善他们的经济状况。

In poor societies, people have children to improve their economic well-being by increasing the number of family workers and providing support for parents in their old age.

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诚然，这样做的目的是为了保护她免受被遗弃的危险，但实际上，它在当时的社会和家庭生活中的作用要重要得多。

Admittedly, the purposeof this was to protect her against the risk of desertion, but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important.

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Women bear children. Well, around that fact comes a whole set of rights and obligations and duties, primarily to the family that have to be primary.

女人要生孩子，好，围绕这个事实,衍生出一整套权利，责任和义务，这些主要是对家庭而言，家庭是首要目标。

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I think it's to give us a dynamic sense of the family conversation going on between them, but it also addresses one of those obvious things.

我想这是要给我们一个有活力的家庭,对话存在于他们之间的感觉，但是它也表明了一个明显的事实。

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They wanted there to be some kind of balance of power among the several major households of Rome, the families of Rome.

要在几个重要的罗马家户间,罗马家庭间，保持权利的平衡。

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