Are you born to a noble family or to a family of peasants and serfs?

你出生在一个贵族家庭，还是一个农民或者农奴家庭？

The country's 8 million serfs would be considered people.

这个国家的 800 万农奴将被视为人民。

Chekhov was born in 1860. His paternal grandfather had been a serf.

契诃夫出生于1860年 祖父曾是农奴。

They also wanted the serfs to be free.

还主张给农奴自由。

In the feudal system, serfs were bound to the land and were essentially owned by their masters.

在封建制度下，农奴受制于土，基本主人所有。

Those serfs were basically slaves, tied to the land and they were owned by local landlords.

那些农奴基本是奴隶，被束缚在土，当主所有。

Many office serfs like to slip away early on Friday afternoons in the quiet summer months.

在宁静的夏季，许多班族喜欢在周五下午早早溜出去。

The domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to the young prince.

家奴们聚集在前厅，准备给小公爵送行。

You could gamble serfs, real people.

你可以押农奴。

Historians see enormous political and economic impacts. Worker shortages gave serfs more bargaining power and hastened the end of feudalism.

学家看到了巨大的政治和经济影响。工人短缺给农奴们更多的议价能力，加速了封建主义的终结。

All I've proved is that Lord Grantham would like us serfs to stay in our allotted place from cradle to grave.

我只是证明了格兰瑟姆伯爵希望我们这些下等人永远保持自己生来的身份。

Like the kind serfs had to do for their feudal lords.

就像农奴为封建领主所做的那种劳役。

They were often like serfs to the drug lords.

他们常常像农奴一样受制于毒枭。

The effective state of play right now, they are all effectively serfs too.

现在的实际情况是，他们也都基本是农奴。

Murph the serf pretended that he and the man were old friends.

墨菲这个仆人假装他和那人是一对老朋友。

He had no use for the other man's way of treating his serfs.

他看不惯那人对待农奴的方式。

But she was accused of torturing a bunch of her serfs.

但她被指控折磨了一群她的农奴。

And like, could she have killed some serfs?

而且，她可能杀过一些农奴吧？

They can't afford to go away for too long, otherwise their serfs will revolt.

他们不能离开太久，否则他们的农奴会起义。

Dressing up as a peasant and walking amongst the serfs.

穿的像个被农奴簇拥着的农夫。