罗马人

On a few systems of law the family organisation of the earliest society has left a plain and broad mark in the lifelong authority of the Father or other ancestor over the person and property of his descendants, an authority which we may conveniently call by its later Roman name of Patria Potestas.

罗马的"家父权"必然地是我们原始父权的典型，但作为一个文明生活的制度，不论我们从其对人的影响或对物的效果而论，都是同样难以理解的。遗憾的是，在它的历史上存在着的一个鸿沟，现在已无法更完全地填满了。

When a Roman citizen adrogated a son, i.e. took a man, not already under Patria Potestas, as his adoptive child, he succeeded universally to the adoptive child''s estate, i.e. he took all the property and became liable for all the obligations.

当一个罗马公民收养一个养子，就是说把原来不在"家父权"下的人收纳为其养子，他就概括地继承其养子的财产，也就是说他取得了养子全部财产和承担了其养子全部义务。

A prankster dropped thousands of colored plastic balls down the Spanish Steps in Rome last week.

上周，一名恶作剧的人从罗马的西班牙台阶倾倒了无数颗彩色塑胶小球。

Dry heat and steam baths had advocates in ancient Rome and pre-Columbian Americans used sweat lodges.

用干热浴发汗的方式在古罗马很受欢迎，而哥伦布发现美洲大陆前的美洲人则使用发汗小屋。

So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

所以情愿尽我的力量，将福音也传给你们在罗马的人。

The caller soundedFrench and identified himself as the Teacher—a title common in the prelature. He said he knew of the Vatican's plans to pull support from Opus Dei.

打电话的人说话听起来很像是法国人，并自称是教主--这是高级教士之职中极为普通的头衔，他说他知道罗马教廷不打算再给予天主事工会任何的支持。

For the Sixth General Council took place in Constantinople, at a time when the bishops of the imperial city already attempted to rival the bishops of Old Rome, and the vast majority of its members were Greeks; their statement is therefore entirely free from the suspicion of Western ambition or prejudice and must be accepted as a true presentment of fact.

为第六届理事会一般发生在君士坦丁堡，在的时候，主教们的皇城已经试图竞争对手的主教们的旧罗马，和广大成员的希腊人，他们的声明是完全免费的，因此从怀疑西方的野心或偏见，并必须接受作为一个真正的出示的事实。

This conception would clearly be problematical if large numbers of foreigners were to receive Roman citizenship.

很显然，假如有大量的外邦人接受了罗马公民权，这一想法就产生了问题。

In old Roman law, another step was absolutely required; it was necessary for the promisee, after the agreement had been made, to sum up all its terms in a solemn interrogation; and it was of this interrogation, of course, and of the assent to it, that proof had to be given at the trial —— not of the promise, which was not in itself binding.

在古罗马法中，另一个步骤是绝对需要的，即允约人在达到合意后必须把所有条件综合在一个庄严的问句中；并且，在审判时，必须提出的证据，就是这个问句以及对这问句的同意——而不是允约，允约本身是没有拘束力的。

Most people are familiar with the proverb: rome was not built in a day.

大多数人都熟悉这个谚语：罗马不是一天建成的。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷