A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
奴隶
Slave
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
世界上有两个人不讨人喜欢:主人和奴隶。
They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.
他们说如果你喝赞比西河的水和你母亲的奶，你永远是非洲的奴隶，而我就是。
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
第一夫人的问题在于，你必须树立标准。我的角色既是明星又是奴隶。
I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.
我不会叫他奴隶。当他做错事时，我不会鞭打他。就在他做好事的时候。
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
我们称一个人为偏执狂或教条的奴隶，因为他是一个彻底而有明确目的的思想家。
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
圣经是一个极端支持奴隶制的文件。在南北战争中，奴隶主们将圣经高举过头，并为其正名。
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
我相信说实话比说谎好。我相信自由比当奴隶好。我相信知道总比无知好。
If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
如果我们有任何合理的理由假定我们有权为该地区的奴隶利益立法，那么你就不能拒绝接受请愿书，而把对这个问题的调查放在门外。
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
大多数被无条件释放的奴隶，在没有任何请求的情况下，回到他们以前的主人那里，按规定的工资为他们服务;作为自由人。人们发现他们现在做的工作比以前做得好。
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When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.
当你是一个演员的时候，你就是别人想象的奴隶。
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
奴隶是等待有人来解放他的人。
I've always been a slave to my heart.
我一直是我内心的奴隶。
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
做自己的主人就是做自己的奴隶。
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
贪得无厌的人永远是奴隶。
Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
宁为老人的爱人，不做年轻人的奴隶。