This was strange stuff, coming from a Virginian slave owner, " deadpans Mr Reynolds."

“这句奇怪的话出自一位弗吉尼亚的奴隶主”雷诺兹冷淡地表示。

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“Look at us,” says Wang Jinfu, a young factory-owner. “We are not slave drivers.”

一位年轻的厂长汪锦福（音）说：“你看，我们又不是奴隶主。”

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To explain the form of a whole building through its relationship with a finial detail of another seems over-inflated, and it's an odd tribute to a slave-owner.

通过它与一个尖顶细节和另一个则似乎过度扩展的关系来诠释整个建筑的形式，并且它也近似是一个给奴隶主的奇怪的贡品。

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Zachary Taylor was a slave owner.

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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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Now when this slave is freed, by the owner, the slave could take the peculium with him, and then he could set up his own business, but he'd still be a client of the owner, because he's still officially part of his household.

等到奴隶关系解除时，他可以拿走那些私产，开始自己的生意，但他仍是主人的被庇护人，因为他仍是家户中的一员。

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"Hal" Rand, as he was known to most, was a white farmer and slave owner.

CNN: The story

"I am not really excusing" the slave owner, he says, "just saying that he only becomes a villain when he becomes conscious" of what he's doing.

CNN: Slave master becomes an abolitionist

Everything slows and thickens from then on, as Django seeks to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from the manicured claws of a slave owner named Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

NEWYORKER: Django Unchained