serfs

The Drepung Monastery owned 185 manors, 20,000 serfs, 300 pastures and 16,000 herdsmen.

哲蚌寺当时就拥有185座庄园 、 2万名农奴 、 300个牧场和1.6万名牧民.

At the bottom of the feudal scale were the villeins or serfs.

在封建等级底层的是农奴.

They did not allow the serfs any freedom.

他们不给农奴任何自由.

Serf owners regarded their serfs as animals that could talk.

农奴主把农奴当做会说话的牲口.

In effect the peasants were still serfs.

这种农民,实际上还是农奴.

They were the forerunners of the medieval serfs.

他们是中世纪农奴的前辈.

Reaching his home, he found the serfs in rebellion and his family and Maria captives.

到家后, 他发现农奴们造了反,家里人和玛利亚都被关了起来.

The serf-owners had the right to beat , abuse or even kill the serfs at will.

(那时) 农奴主 有权任意打骂甚至杀害农奴.

Serf-owners had a firm grip on the birth, death and marriage of serfs.

农奴主掌握着农奴生 、 死、婚、嫁大权.

Children of serfs were registered the moment they were born, setting their life-long fate as serfs.

农奴的子女一出生,就登记入册, 注定了终身为农奴的命运.

The nobles had oppressed and exploited their serfs.

贵族压迫剥削农奴.

The emancipation of the serfs is a great event in history.

解放农奴在历史上是一件大事.