来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代早期英国社会 第2集 第2集》

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  There were distinctions of function,
  有根据职能的区分
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  your role in the commonwealth.
  即个人在联邦中的角色
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  There were distinctions of rank and of status.
  还有等级和地位的区分
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  There were distinctions of course of gender
  当然也有按性别区分
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  and there were distinctions of age--parents and children
  还有按年龄的区分 父母和孩子
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  --and many of these distinctions tended to overlap.
  其中很多区分还互相重叠
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  So I want now to look at them a little more closely,
  我希望你们现在再仔细看一下
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  starting by looking at rank and status,
  从等级和地位那开始
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  the hierarchy that they emphasize so much--
  这也是最受重视的等级制度
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  and here I'll skip along quite smartly
  我要明智地跳过这个部分
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  because you've had a chance
  因为我觉得
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  to read about this already to some degree,
  你们一定程度上已经了解了