At the top of it is the head of the household, the man, the paterfamilias.

金字塔顶端是一家之主，男人，即家长。

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For example, they might-- paterfamilias would often put a slave up in business, give a slave enough money to run a business.

比如，他们可能。。。,家长通常会让奴隶参与生意，给他一笔钱做生意。

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The venerable paterfamilias, the venerable father of the family.

令人肃然起敬的男家长，家中令人肃然起敬的父亲角色。

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So what do you have with all these other people, these other Romans around here, who don't have a powerful patron, who don't have a powerful paterfamilias to help them out?

那这些人怎么办？,其他普通罗马人，没有强大的庇护人，没有强大的家长帮忙？

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Sons and daughters, though, were still part of the household, as long as the paterfamilias was alive.

儿子和女儿。。。,仍是家户的一员，只要家长还健在。

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He and his family, the emperor's family, - was, in a sense, the patron for the whole people of the Roman Empire-- - at least for all the Romans-- the paterfamilias of the entire empire.

他及其家庭，帝王的家庭，某种意义上说，就是整个罗马帝国的庇护者-,至少是所有罗马人的-,他成了整个帝国的家长。

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So lower-class people--now what happens, though, when you have--see your clients, your freedmen, your sons, your daughters, all these are part of this pyramid structure, and they all benefit from a strong paterfamilias, and he benefits by having a strong household and a large household.

所以低社会阶级的人。。。情况是。。。,你的被庇护人，自由人，儿子，女儿，都属于金字塔结构之一，他们都受益于强大的家长，家长也受益于强大家户。

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Now slaves obviously are in the paterfamilias.

奴隶属于家长的家户。

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So sons legally were still under their paterfamilias.

所以法律上儿子仍属于他们的家长。

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