Yet, paradoxically, the man who fell into debt could enslave his wife to a creditor for up to three years

但自相矛盾的是，如果丈夫欠了债务，可以将妻子卖给债主为奴，时间可以多达三年。

be enslave d to a habit

改不掉的坏习惯.

Education make a people easy to lead,but difficult to drive;easy to govern,but impossible to enslave .

教育使人易于领导，难以驱使;易于管理，难以奴役。

enslave

使…成奴隶.

They applied the carrot and stick to enslave the people in the colonies.

他们使用胡萝卜加大棒的手段来奴役殖民地人民。

Thus, they intervened, not to control and enslave others but to enlighten, instruct, and liberate

他们是这样才进行干涉的:不是为支配和奴役别人，而是为了开化、教育和解放他们。

It’s worth everything, isn’t it, to keep one’s intellectual liberty, not to enslave one’s powers of appreciation, one’s critical independence

为了保持一个人的思想自由，为了不让鉴赏力和批评的独立性受到限制，即使付出一切代价也值得的。

..The world has forgotten the true fountain of this teaching And people enslave themselves to miracles and fables.

真源了无取,忘迹世所逐

||1: Zanzibar was the main conduit of slaves from Africa to Arabia, as a sculpture in the town commemorates (pictured below). ||2: Abolitionists railed against the trade. ||3: But the island’s Omani rulers were implacable, arguing that the Koran gave the right to enslave infidels. ||4: Britain itself sent out mixed messages. ||5: Zanzibar was nominally under the control of the India Office and officials there valued stability. ||6: Besides, the slaves came along with flawless and easily worked ivory from jungle elephants that was in demand in England for billiard balls, piano keys, trinkets, knives and forks. ||7: “The cutlers of Sheffield alone took 170 tons [a year],” the author notes.

||1:非洲奴隶主要通过桑给巴尔岛流向阿拉伯半岛，镇上还有纪念雕塑（下图所示）。||2:废奴主义者强烈抗议奴隶贸易。||3:而岛上的阿曼统治者态度却极为坚决，他们坚持认为，古兰经赋予了人们以异教徒为奴的权利。||4:英国本身的态度也含糊不清。||5:名义上，桑给巴尔受印度办事处管辖，官员很重视这里的稳定程度。||6:另外，人们很容易从生活在丛林中得大象身上取得光洁无暇的象牙，在引进奴隶的同时，象牙也一同流入英国，制成畅销的台球、钢琴键、装饰品和刀叉。||7:Hazell指出:“仅在谢菲尔德，（每年）就有170吨象牙来到刀叉制造商手中。”

It does not allow man to enslave and pollute nature with his selfishness. Divinity should be restored to the universe;

《老子》哲学神秘主义则让万物保持自己渊深而神秘的生命，不允许人类以自私之心奴役自然、污染自然。

If so, why don’t we think it’s acceptable to enslave people with low IQs?

如果能，为什么我们无法接受奴役低智商人群的行为呢？

enslave to

vt.成为...的奴隶,使沉湎于