This slim volume is packed with tips to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most “happiness bang for your buck”.

无论你是工资的奴仆，还是彩票的幸运儿，这本薄薄的册子都能最大化让你的荷包为你带来幸福。

Once in office, Jefferson extended slavery with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13 states, including three slave states.

入主白宫之后的 1803 年，杰弗逊通过购买路易斯安那州扩大了奴隶制度，这片土地后来被划分为了 13个州，其中包括 3个蓄奴州。

" We are slaves to nothing but the clock, " it has been said.

“只有时间才能支配我们。”

Manchester became a centre of the universe, always feeding on cheap labour, mostly women, who, unlike slaves, were paid a wage, albeit a poor one.

依靠廉价的劳力，尤其是妇女们，曼切斯特成为了这一切的中心。这些劳力黑奴不同，他们有一些薪水，虽然并不多。

Many of these slaves are migrants, people who leave their home countries, fleeing dangerous conditions or looking for somewhere better to live.

他们大部分是移民，他们背井离乡，或是逃离灾祸或是好的生活环境。

He spent the next twelve years as a slave working for three masters.

接下来的12年里，他作为奴隶为三个主人工作过。

It also tells us that we're not slaves to GDP.

而且，它还告诉了我们 我们并不是国内生产总值的奴隶。

But right now, worldwide, there are more slaves than at any other time in history.

但是现在全世界范围内， 奴隶制比历史上的任何时期还要多。

Rouse, ye Romans! rouse, ye slaves!

醒来吧，罗马人！醒来吧，你们这些被奴役的人！

" A paycheck" means your pay at the end of your slaving work hours.

“薪水”是指您在工作时间结束时的工资。

They wanted to sell us as slaves in the markets there.

他们想在那儿的市场上把我们当作奴隶卖掉。

As a child, Edwards had been a slave on a plantation.

爱德华兹小时候曾是种植园的奴隶。

And then, in a deplorable passage, he says, well, it is true that there are some people who are fit by nature, who are cut out to be slaves.

然后，他在一段糟糕的文字中说，确实有些人天生适合为奴。

Most black people in this country are walking around with a slave owner's last name.

这个国家的很多黑人都用奴隶主的姓氏。

A story of a slave holding society that became a servant of freedom. It is the American story. A story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals.

这是一部美国成为友人旧社会解放者的新世界发展史。这是一部美国由奴隶制社会发展成为崇尚自由的社会史。这就是美国史。它不是一部完美无暇的民族发展史，但它是一部在伟大永恒理想指导下几代人团结奋斗的历史。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't really hear about many young people that are from another country and they were a child slave.

你不会真的听说很多来自另一个国家的年轻人，然后他们是童奴。

It can be depressing, obviously if you don't like those 16 hours, usually, a lot of us are slaves to our bad habits.

显然，如果你不喜欢那16个小时的话，那它可能是令人沮丧的，通常，很多人都会向坏习惯的事情低头。

Perhaps you didn't know that the Romans used Britain's as slaves, but I digress.

也许你不知道罗马人把不列颠人当作奴隶，但我跑题了。

Abraham Lincoln is the President who tried to liberate slaves.

亚伯拉罕·林肯是设法解放奴隶的总统。

She became an expert at hiding from slave hunters.

她成了躲避奴隶主的专家。