术语“奴隶”的详细信息

英译术语:

slave

汉语语境:

一般认为奴隶主对奴隶有生杀大权，其实不尽然。古希腊法律禁止奴隶主杀害奴隶，古罗马法律虽然认可，但现实生活中无辜杀害奴隶的事例毕竟是少数，到帝国时期，奴隶主杀害奴隶的权力也逐渐被废止。事实上，奴隶劳动并非没有报酬，反而多数行业可以取得和自由人一样的薪水，凭着这收入，他们过着能够过得去的生活，有的还能赎身变得自由。奴隶的生活虽苦，但并不可怕。

英语语境:

It is generally believed that slave owners had the power of life and death over slaves, which is not true all the time. Laws in ancient Greek forbade slave owners to kill their slaves. Although laws in ancient Rome permitted it, cases of killing slaves without reasons were rather rare. The slave owners'rights of killing slaves had gradually been abolished till The Empire Period.Slaves did not work without payment. On the contrary, they earned equal salaries as free men. With the income, they were able to satisfy the basic living requirement, and some of them could even ransom themselves and live freely. That was the life of slaves, painstaking but not horrible.