1.The grandfather of a serf named Cering Goinbo of Maizhokunggar County once borrowed 50 ke of grain (1 ke equal to 14 kg) from the Sera Monastery. In 77 years the three generations had paid more than 3,000 ke of grain for the interest but the serf-owner still claimed that Cering Goinbo owed him 100,000 ke of grain.
墨竹工卡县有一名叫次仁贡布的农奴，他的祖父曾向色拉寺借了50克(一克合14公斤)粮食，祖父、父亲和他三代人还利息达77年，总共付利息粮3000多克，可领主说他仍欠粮10万克。
2.The Democratic Reform abolished the ownership of the means of production by serf-owners. The farmland originally occupied by those serf-owners involved in the armed rebellion was distributed free to landless serfs and slaves.
民主改革废除了生产资料的农奴主所有制，参加叛乱的农奴主占有的耕地无偿分给了无地的农奴和奴隶。
3.A policy of redemption was introduced with regard to the land and other means of production of serf-owners who did not participate in the rebellion. The 900,000 ke of land and over 820,000 head of livestock of the 1,300 serf-owners and their agents, who did not participate in the rebellion, were redeemed by the state at a cost topping 45 million yuan.
对未参加叛乱的农奴的土地和其他生产资料实行赎买政策，1300多户未参加叛乱的农奴主和代理人的90万克土地和82万多头牲畜由国家支付赎买金4500多万元。
4.The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois.
农奴曾经在农奴制度下挣扎到公社社员的地位，小资产者曾经在封建专制制度的束缚下挣扎到资产者的地位。
5.The democratic reform which took place in Tibet in 1959 eradicated the feudal serf system marked by the combination of government and religion and the dictatorship of nobles and monks, thus tens of thousands of serfs and slaves under the old system got their personal freedom and became masters of the new society.
1959年在西藏进行的民主改革，彻底废除了长达700多年的政教合一、贵族僧侣专权的封建农奴制度，昔日百万农奴和奴隶获得了人身自由，成了新社会的主人。
6.The Tibetan laboring people no longer suffer from the heavy corvee taxes and usurious exploitation by the serf-owners. The fruits of their labor all belong to themselves, and the enthusiasm of the Tibetan people for production became unprecedentedly high.
西藏劳动人民再不受农奴主的沉重差税和高利贷剥削，劳动果实全部留归自己，生产积极性空前高涨。
7.A saying circulated among serfs, "All a serf can carry away is his own shadow, and all he can leave behind is his footprints."
农奴中流传着这样的话：“能带走的只是自己的身影，能留下的只有自己的脚印。
8.HISTORIC INSPIRATIONS DRAWN FROM THE REFORM OF THE RUSSIAN SERF SYSTEM AND MEIJI RESTORATION
俄国农奴制改革和日本明治维新的历史启示
9.Over the past four decades and more, Tibet has made much headway in carrying forward the fine aspects of its traditional culture, while maintaining Tibetan cultural traits, which is revealed prominently in the following aspects: First, the main body of Tibetan culture, which was monopolized by a small handful of feudal serf-owners in the past, has been changed completely, and the entire Tibetan people have become the main body jointly carrying forward and developing Tibetan culture and sharing its fruits;
40多年来，西藏文化在继承传统优秀文化和保持藏民族文化特色的基础上得到了巨大的发展。这种发展突出地表现在：一是西藏文化的主体发生了根本变化，彻底改变了极少数封建农奴主垄断西藏文化的局面，西藏全体人民成为共同继承、发展和分享西藏文化的主体；
10.Appropriate arrangements have also been made even for those serf-owners and their agents who participated in the rebellion, giving them the chance to contribute to the state and people if they renounce their reactionary stand and possess real skills.
即使对于参加过叛乱的农奴主和他们的代理人，只要放弃反动立场，确有所长也给予适当安排，使他们有机会为国家、为人民出力。
