在汉穆拉比法典里,如果某人的牛杀死了一个小孩,那么这头牛的主人的小孩也应处死。
In the Code of Hammurabi, where someone's ox kills a child, then the ox owner's child is killed.
结论:《汉穆拉比法典》体现了古巴比伦人的正义观,它与我们现代的正义观不完全相同。
Conclusion: the Code of Hammurabi incarnates the idea of justice of the Old Babylonians, which not quite the same as our modern idea of justice.
巴比伦王国:美索不达米亚的一个古代帝国,幼发拉底河流域。繁荣于汉穆拉比和尼布甲尼撒二世统治之时,但于公元前562年后衰落并于539年落于波斯人手中。
Babylonia: an ancient empire of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates river valley. It flourished under hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar ii but declined after562b. c. and fell to the persians in539.
Literal punishment: for example, in the Code of Hammurabi, where someone's ox kills a child, then the ox owner's child is killed.
例如,在汉穆拉比法典里,如果某人的牛,杀死了一个小孩,那么这头牛的主人的小孩也应处死。
But when you look at it in a comparative light in its legal context, we see that it's a polemic against the class distinctions that were being drawn in antecedent and contemporary legal systems, such as the Code of Hammurabi.
但当你在法律背景下以一种比较的观点看待它时,会发现它驳倒了存在于先前的和同时代的,法律体系中的阶级差异,例如,汉穆拉比法典。
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