It's easier to understand a Master-servant relationship or a Creator-creation relationship or even Father-child.

主人与仆人、创造与被造，甚至父子的关系，都较易明白接受。

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But the relationship between us never became that of master and servant.

不过，我们之间的关系从来也不是主仆间的关系。

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