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 万农奴将被视为民。

The book only occasionally touches on the lives of the vast majority of the Russian population, who were peasants, or even serfs, farmers bound to serve the owners of the land on which they lived.

书中只是偶尔涉及到俄罗斯的普通大众，其中包括农民，甚至农奴，这些在当时不得不为服务。

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

契诃夫出生1860年 祖父曾是农奴。

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，基本上归所有。

As a boy, Dostoyevsky had spent the summer at his family's home in the country and he had become friends with the serfs.

还是孩子的时候，陀思妥耶夫斯基曾在乡下的家里避暑，与那里的农奴成了朋友。

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永远保持自己生来的身份。

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

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

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

在宁静的夏季，许多上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.

你可以押上农奴。

With those about him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused.

对周围的，从女儿到仆，公爵总是既严厉又苛刻，因此，他虽不残酷，但大家都对他抱着敬畏的态度。

Her neighbor Lopakhin, a former serf, encourages her to chop down the orchard and divide the estate into parcels for middle-class people to build summer homes.

她的曾经是农奴的邻居劳帕金鼓励她砍掉果园 把庄园分成小块用来给中产阶级建造避暑别墅。

They also wanted the serfs to be free.

还张给农奴自由。

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

那些农奴基本上是奴隶，被束缚在上，归当所有。

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

就像农奴为封建领所做的那种劳役。

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

现在的实际情况是，他们也都基本上是农奴。

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

墨菲这个仆假装他和那是一对老朋友。

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

他看不惯那对待农奴的方式。

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。