Why would she be ashamed?

她为什么要感到羞耻

is not appreciated by most communists.

贵族血统的价值

You're right, it does sound like one of those arranged

没错 听着像贵族阶级的

- Part of a land swap or an alliance. - Nope.

-交换土地 或是联姻什么的 -不像

with heroic characteristics.

有着英雄式的人物

which is legitimized by heroic behavior on the battlefield.

他们的贵族的身份和贵族出身是被认可的

Is the best regime, as the ancients tended to believe,

最佳政体是这样吗 就如古人常信

in which only the few best habitually rule;

一种贵族式共和 由少数人日常统治

Populares just comes from the word for "The people."

连Populares都取自民众这个词

patrician families, although his family didn't have

出身显赫 虽然他的家族

He has these luminous, luminous essays about his life as a

他写过一些内容欢快的散文

and in that picture his mother and father loom very large and

在那幅画面中他的父母十分突出