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奴隶制
Slavery
Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
为奴之人歌颂主，要把他们从奴役中拯救出来。
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受!工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
财富是自由的工具，但追求财富是通往奴役的道路。
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
然而，我们关心的是奴隶制的现状，而不是它的任何理论。
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.
我的另一个愿望是尽可能少地依赖奴隶的劳动。
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
依赖一种职业，比依赖父亲，是一种不那么可恶的奴役形式。
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
每一次解放都孕育着新的奴隶制度，每一个真理都很容易变成谎言。
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
的确，永远的和平是永远无法恢复的，除非战争时期的奴隶制停止。
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
贫穷的北方与奴隶制有很大关系。它在负重下摇摇晃晃，在鞭打下痛苦不堪。
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
我们必须继续根据奴隶制是什么来判断它，而不是根据你告诉我们它将是什么，或者可能是什么来判断。
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
我不需要再多说什么，来证明奴隶制完全不同于父权家庭中的奴役。
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
自由意味着你可以自由地选择自己的生活。任何不这样做的，都是一种奴役。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
当一个好人投身于奴隶制的倡导时，他必须至少在一段时间内，在他的新思想、学说和推理模式中，感到自己除了在家里之外，什么地方都是自在的。
Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.
奴隶制阻碍了艺术和制造业的发展。
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
长期奴役妇女是人类历史上最黑暗的一页。
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.
人的灵魂被人当作商品出售，这样的土地能幸福吗?不!当幸福不居住在任何被奴役的诅咒所侵蚀的土地上。
There is no slavery but ignorance.
没有奴役，只有无知。
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
你可以试一试，但你永远想象不出，拥有男人的天赋，还要忍受做女孩的苦役是什么滋味。