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奴隶制
Slavery
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
没有双重解放,任何奴隶制都不可能被废除,而主人从自由中得到的益处将超过自由人。
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
父母的教育方法有两种,一种是专制,一种是奴役,一种是自私;所有等级的暴政或奴隶制。
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
一个奴隶只有一个主人;一个有野心的人有多少主人,就有多少人可以帮助他改善地位。
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。
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
我只能说,在世的人当中,没有一个人比我更真诚地希望看到通过一项废除奴隶制的计划。
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
奴隶制并不是这场争论中出现的唯一问题。对你们来说,还有一个重要得多的问题,那就是,如何对待自由的黑人?
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
人们崇拜机器,因为它们美丽而珍贵,因为它们赋予权力;人们憎恨他们,因为他们丑陋不堪,憎恨他们,因为他们强加奴隶制度。
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
我预先声明和抗议,我并不打算,至少在这个时候;以奴隶制的任何一种细分或形式被引入或被迫进入奴隶制问题。
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
奴隶注定要崇拜时间、命运和死亡,因为它们比他在自己身上发现的任何东西都要伟大,因为他所有的思想都是被时间、命运和死亡吞噬的。
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。
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。
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
血是一种净化和神圣化的东西,把它视为最后的恐怖的国家已经丧失了它的男子气概……有许多事情比流血更可怕,奴隶制就是其中之一!
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
This war is not about slavery.
这场战争与奴隶制无关。