there were actually in a sense group rights with the women.

当时斯巴达关于女性还有一项集体权利
For instance, if a man found that his wife couldn't bear children

也就是假如妻子无法生育
it was legal and proper, and normal for a man

那么法律上允许丈夫
who was his friend to lend him his wife

借他朋友的妻子来生孩子这也很正常
and that the child who came from that union

然后生下的孩子
would belong to the man who had been childless.

由那对膝下无子的夫妇抚养
Again, think. I mean,

你们想想
what is happening to all the normal feelings

人们彼此之间的关系
about people have for one another and the central role

以及你们能想到的几乎所有社会中
that family plays in almost every society you can think of.

家庭所起到的重要作用发生了怎样的改变呢
On the other hand, we should not imagine

另一方面我们也不能认为
that women had a role in Spartan society

在斯巴达社会中的女人