This concept has been around for thousands of years and all major civilisations used slaves at some point.

这个概念已经持续了数千年，全部主要的文明被用在这一点上。

And now we finally get the chance to taste what they've been slaving at all day.You're right.

现在我们终于有机会尝尝他们准备了一整天的食物了。

We're unlikely to spend our last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives slaving away at work.

在生命的最后时刻，我们不太可能会为工作的太少而感到遗憾。

In the United States, slaves at that time were black, or African American.

在美国，当时的奴隶都是黑人，或者非裔美国人。

Freeing all the slaves at once would cause problems, he thought.

一次释放所有奴隶会引起问题， 他想。

Like their mother, these four children were slaves at Monticello.

和他们的母亲一样， 这四个孩子都是蒙蒂塞洛的奴隶。

After John Wayles's death in 1773, Sally had become Martha and Thomas Jefferson's slave at Monticello.

1773 年约翰·韦尔斯 (John Wayles) 去世后， 莎莉 (Sally) 成为了玛莎和托马斯·杰斐逊 (Martha and Thomas Jefferson) 在蒙蒂塞洛 (Monticello) 的奴隶。

Fortunately in the United States there is no more slavery;we don't have any slaves, at least not legally.

幸运的是，在美国不再有奴隶制； 我们没有任何奴隶，至少在法律上没有。

She was recruited to assist fugitive slaves at Fort Monroe and she worked as a nurse, cook, and laundress.

她被招募来帮助门罗堡的逃亡奴隶，并担任过护士、厨师和洗衣女工。

And I've slaved at it steadily for ten years without reward — without the most distant hope of success!

十年来我一直在努力工作， 没有任何回报——没有最遥远的成功希望！

Apparently, now I don't know if this is true, Romans sold ginger slaves at a higher price than other slaves.

显然，现在我不知道这是不是真的，罗马人以比其他奴隶更高的价格出售生姜奴隶。

Laborers are slaving away at a job they don't enjoy for a small monetary reward, waiting all day until they go home and play.

劳役者仅为了一点金钱报酬，像奴隶一样做自己并不喜欢的工作，一天到晚等着回家玩乐。

While I'll be hours and hours away from everyone slaving away at the most prestigious college in the country all by my lonesome.

而我离你们大家都十分遥远在全国最有名望的大学里孤单地埋头苦学。

It authorized the issue of food and clothing to the destitute and the renting of abandoned and certain other lands under federal control to former slaves at reasonable rates.

它授权向穷人发放食物和衣服，并以合理的价格将联邦控制下的废弃土地和某些其他土地出租给前奴隶。

Gerald was disappointed, for he had wanted a son, but he nevertheless was pleased enough over his small black-haired daughter to serve rum to every slave at Tara and to get roaringly, happily drunk himself.

杰拉尔德感到有点失望，因为他想要一个儿子，不过他还是很喜欢这个黑头发的女儿，高高兴兴地请塔拉农场的每个农奴都喝了酒，自己也乐得喝了个酩酊大醉。

And this deponent further states, that the mother of the said Solomon Northup was not a slave at the time of the birth of said Solomon Northup, and has not been a slave at any time within the last fifty years.

这位宣誓人进一步指出，上述所罗门诺瑟普的母亲在所罗门诺瑟普出生时不是奴隶， 并且在过去五十年内的任何时候都不是奴隶。