来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新约及其历史背景 第3集 第3集》

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  than the Greeks had made of, and this is the patron-client structure.
  就是庇护主义
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  This is a bit more of a distinctly Roman institution,
  这是典型的罗马社会制度
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  even a legal institution.
  甚至算是法定的制度
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  But it's important for understanding both the Roman empire,
  了解了它 就能了解罗马帝国
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  as well as early Christianity and its patron-client relations.
  还有早期基督教和它的庇护关系
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  The household structure of a Roman household was this --
  罗马的家族模式
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  and I say "Household,"
  我说household
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  because our word "Family,"
  是因为我们的family
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  which we usually take to mean the biological family:
  这个词通常表示血亲家族
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  the father, the mother, the children,
  父亲 母亲 孩子
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  maybe the grandchildren, maybe the extended family.
  可能还有孙子 可能是几代同堂的家庭
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  But we usually mean by it the immediate, the nuclear family,
  但是我们通常指的是核心家庭