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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  So most of the young then lived in
  所以那时候的大多数年轻人
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  positions of subordination
  都是从属于别人的
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  and they had social identities which were merged with those
  他们的社会身份是与他们所从属的
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  of the adult householders under whose authority they lived.
  成年户主联系在一起的
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  To give you one example of this I recently encountered,
  给你们举个我最近偶然碰到的例子
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  I was looking at the deaths recorded in parish registers
  有一次 我在看某个教区登记的
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  in a plague year in the early seventeenth century
  十七世纪初 某年瘟疫的死亡记录
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  and it was striking that servants were
  我震惊地发现 佣人的信息
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  not recorded under their own names.
  并不是以他们自己的名字记录的
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  When servants had died of the plague and were buried
  在这个教区 埋葬死于瘟疫的佣人时
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  they were put down in the
  他们的名字会被登记为
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  parish register as "Robert Foster's maid"
  "罗伯特·福斯特的女佣"