In the Middle Ages, a Lord and a serf had very different places in life.

中世纪，农奴主和农奴在生活中是两个截然不同的阶级。

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But whenever it was possible to send a house-serf for a soldier in place of a peasant, he did so without the smallest compunction.

只有在可以用家奴代替农民去当兵的时候，他就会毫不犹豫地派家奴去当兵。

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The best way to get rid of a negative serf-image is to…

都是说明如何肯定的自我形象的。

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Better to be a serf, the lowest serf on the earth, than to be a king in Hades."

在世上做一个奴隶,一个最卑贱的奴隶,也比在冥界称王要好得多"

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What happens in Russia is what happens in Prussia, as well, and in other parts of Eastern Europe, particularly in the Hapsburg domains--you have, to make a very bad pun, a resurfacing of the region by people forced into serf contracts.

在普鲁士发生了与俄国一样的事情,东欧的其他地区也是一样,特别是哈布斯堡王朝的领域,说个不好的双关语吧,被迫签下契约变成农奴的人们把这些地区改头换面了

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"The ruling bodies of the gilds wielded an actual jurisdiction over their members, punishing them with the same punishments that a feudal lord imposed upon his serf, " writes historian Tom Girtin.

BBC: Lessons from history: Can royalty guarantee a free press?

There were serf-like doormen, invisible porters who hauled out the trash, a squad of Polish maids who came Wednesday and Friday mornings to pick up after Kendall and scrub the toilet in the Moorish bathroom and tidy up the sunny kitchen where he ate his lunch.

NEWYORKER: Great Experiment