自由民

We are persons; native, freeborn citizens; property-holders, tax-payers; yet are we denied the exercise of our right to the elective franchise.

我们是人，是本地人，生来就是自由民，是财産持有者，是付税人；可是，人们却拒不允许我们享有选举权，我们养活我们自己，而且还部分地负担了学校、大学、教会的费用，部分地负担了你们的贫民院、监狱、陆军、海军和整个国家机器的费用。

Throughout the principate the custom of extending Roman citizenship went on through grants both to entire communities and to individuals, until in A.D. 212 Caracalla granted Roman citizenship to the entire freeborn population of the empire.

在罗马帝国实行元首制期间，将罗马公民权的范围扩大授予个人与整个团体，这一传统始终延续着，直至A.D.212年卡拉卡拉皇帝将公民权授予了全帝国所有生为自由民的人们。

A procurator could be free born or a freedman of the owner.

代理人可以是自由民出身的，也可以是主人的获释奴。

If a chieftain or a man, who has been ordered to go upon the king's highway for war does not go, but hires a mercenary, if he withholds the compensation, then shall this officer or man be put to death, and he who represented him shall take possession of his house.

若一个酋长或者自由民，没有接受命令为国王出征，却雇佣他而人代其出征，如果他拒绝给予相应的赔偿，那么此人应被处死，而代表他的人可以占领他的房屋。

Throughout the principate the custom of extending Roman citizenship went on through grants both to entire communities and to individuals, until in A.D.

在罗马帝国实行元首制期间，将罗马公民权的范围扩大授予个人与整个团体，这一传统始终延续着，直至A.D.212年卡拉卡拉皇帝将公民权授予了全帝国所有生为自由民的人们。

Among them is all-seeing Deeti, a young village woman rescued from her husband's funeral pyre; sparkling-eyed Zachary Reid, a freedman from Baltimore; Serang Ali, head of the ship's crew of lascars, with a face that "would have earned the envy of Genghis Khan"; Neel, a bankrupt Raja, whose presence can silence a room,"leaving a few last threads of sound to float gently to the floor, like the torn ends of a ribbon"; and a spirited French orphan, Paulette, and her Indian soulmate, Jodu, the son of a boatman.

在所塑造的人物中，有能够洞察一切的蒂缇，一名从她丈夫的葬礼材火堆中被救出的年青村妇；有目光炯炯的扎克里·里德，一名来自巴尔的摩的自由民；有瑟让·阿里，船上那些东印度水手的水手长；他的模样"让成吉思汗①都艳羡不已"；尼尔则是个落魄的印度王公②，他一出现就会全场顿时变得鸦雀无声，作者对此的描写是大家都"只等最后几丝杂音渐渐轻柔落地，如同被人撕碎的丝带从空中飘落下来一样"；还有一个精神充沛的法国女人保罗莱特，她是名孤儿，以及她的知己，印度人爵都，他是一个船夫的儿子。

Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption of females or males, of freemen and slaves.

无论到了什么地方，也无论需诊治的病人是男是女、是自由民是奴婢，对他们我一视同仁，为他们谋幸福是我惟一的目的。

Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and further, from the seduction of females or males, of freeman and slaves.

无论到了什么地方，也无论需诊治的病人是男是女、是自由民是奴婢，对他们我一视同仁，为他们谋幸福是我惟一的目的。

To cite comparative examples, if a mushkenu was injured in eye or limb, he was indemnified by the payment of a mina (roughly 0.45 kg, or 1 lb, of silver); in the case of an awilu similarly injured, the law of retaliation was applied; whereas for an injured slave, the indemnity was to be half the slave's market value.

引用比较的例子：如果一个依附民的眼晴或四肢受到伤害，他会得到1梅纳（大约0.45千克或1毫克的白银）的赔偿；在一位自由民受到同样伤害的情况下，会使用到报复性的法律行为；然而一位受到伤害的奴隶，其赔偿额是奴隶的市面价值的一半。

It was not the aristocrat but the yeoman who determined the nation's policies.

决定国家政策的不是贵族，而是自由民。

I didn't watch TV last night, because it .

昨晚我没有看电视，因为电视机坏了。

Since this year, in a lot of villages of Beijing, TV of elevator liquid crystal was removed.

今年以来，在北京的很多小区里，电梯液晶电视被撤了下来。