来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论第7集》

and if nature intends to distinguish the slave from the free,

如果是自然使奴隶不再自由
the free from the unfree,

使自由人变得自由
how can nature miss the mark?

那么自然是如何出错的
How can the opposite often result?

又是如何适得其反的
I mention this

我将这个
because such complications should alert the careful reader.

是为了提醒读者要警惕一些复杂的地方
We're trying to read carefully.

我们尝试仔细地去读它
What is Aristotle doing

亚里士多德做了什么
in making this seem so complicated?

使之变得如此复杂
At the same time, Aristotle agrees with

同时亚里士多德同意那些
those who defend the thesis of natural slavery.

辩护奴隶制的自然性的论点的人
His defense seems to run something like this.

他的辩护似乎就是想这样进行的