Think about farmers who themselves worked the fields,

想一想农民亲自下地劳作的场面
and are assisted in their work in the fields by one or two slaves

只带自家一两个奴隶来协助自己
that they owned. That's not the Spartan system.

这在斯巴达的体制中是看不到的
The Spartan system will be Spartans at home,

在斯巴达体制下斯巴达人待在家里
training constantly for their military purposes,

进行军事训练
never working any fields, never engaging in trade or industry,

从不下地干活也不从事商业或手工业
others doing that for them.

自有人替他们干这些活
Something that in a small way begins to resemble slavery

这在某种程度上有点像
as we think of it in the antebellum south in the United States,

南北战争前的美国南方的奴隶制度
where great armies of slaves are doing all the work

奴隶大军包揽所有的工作
and where the plantation owners,

而种植园主们
the Spartans don't do any work at all, but in the south

就是斯巴达人则什么活都不干