Roman doctrine, of course, had prized the state of celibacy, insisting that it was the superior state over marriage.

当然罗马教义曾赞扬独身主义，坚持认为那是比婚姻更优良的状态。

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So I'll tend to talk about "the Roman household," because that's what's more meaningful sociologically when we talk about this.

所以我倾向于用“罗马家户“,因为这样说，我们讨论这一问题时,更有社会学意义。

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The Roman poet philosopher Juvenal said men need not so much be informed as reminded.

罗马哲学家尤维纳利斯说过,人们更需要记住，而不是被通知。

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Since he was an unusually small lad, he had been mainlining Greek and Roman poetry.

由于还是非常年轻的孩子，他依旧沉湎于希腊和罗马的诗歌。

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The Holy Roman Empire, as it was known in the time of Machiavelli, was the successor to the ancient Roman state, the older Roman Empire.

神圣罗马帝国，是马奇亚维利那年代的称号，那是古罗马国的继承者，即较古老的罗马帝国。

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You can see Greek and Roman temples there to prove it.

你能在那看到希腊和罗马的神庙证明那段历史

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So the status of slave was lowest, ; freed persons was next highest in Roman Law; and free people were next.

所以罗马律法中，奴隶的地位是最低的，然后是自由人;,接着是自由民。

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Because whenever we say,"Asia Minor," we're talking about that section around the Mediterranean that now is called Turkey. But it was called Asia Minor, generally,in the Roman Imperial Period.

因为当我们说到“小亚细亚“,指的便是地中海附近,现在那里叫土耳其，但在罗马帝国时代，它通常被称为小亚细亚。

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When a slave is freed--and in the Ancient World, in the Roman Empire, most slaves were eventually freed, - unless they just died before long-- they became a freed man.

当一名奴隶被释放。。。在古罗马帝国，几乎所有奴隶最终都会被释放，除非他们很早就去世-,成为脱离奴隶身份的人。

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But so when I say "family"-- we try to avoid even talking about "the Roman family," because it means something so different to them than what it means to us.

所以我说家庭时-,我们尽量不用来指“罗马家庭“,因为这个词古今意思截然不同。

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Pax Romana This led to what we famously call the Pax Romana, "the Roman Peace," because you had the end of long, hundreds of years of civil wars and other wars, at least within Rome itself.

这导致了著名的，即“罗马和平“，因为长达几百年的，内战及大小战争终于结束了，至少在罗马本土结束了。

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So if you go to an Anglican church, they will also,most of the time, accept the Roman Catholic canon,along with Roman Catholics.

所以如果你到了圣公会，大多数时候，他们会接受，罗马天主教正典和罗马天主教徒。

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So the Romans didn't try to make the East Roman, in that sense, culturally, nor did they try to change the language.

所以罗马人没有强迫东方罗马化，文化上没有，语言上也没有。

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So within a couple of generations people could move up from being the lowest slaves to two generations of being free Roman citizens.

所以几代以内,奴隶能从最低社会等级,上升两位，成为自由的罗马公民。

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But it's important for understanding both the Roman Empire, as well as early Christianity and its patron-client relations.

这对了解罗马帝国，早期基督教，及其庇护关系很有帮助。

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You can't wander around any Greek city, or Roman city of the Ancient World, without seeing the latrine.

古代希腊城市，及罗马城市，都有公共厕所。

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