But the highest duty of government is to protect its citizens.

但政府的最高职责是保护公民。

Local authorities are dragging their feet, but the highest duty of any government is to protect its citizens.

地方政府在磨洋工，但是任何政府的最高职责就是保护其公民。

Marriage is a state of higher duties.

婚姻是一种更高的责任状态。

Munro shook his head in disappointment, and proceeded, bent on the high duty of his station.

芒罗失望地摇了摇头，继续前进，一心履行他的职责。

That minister, by the tariff of 1667, imposed very high duties upon a great number of foreign manufactures.

这位部长根据 1667 年的关税， 对大量外国制造商征收了非常高的关税。

Those different restraints consisted sometimes in high duties, and sometimes in absolute prohibitions.

这些不同的限制有时包括高义务，有时包括绝对禁止。

The high duties upon foreign manufactures, and upon all goods imported by alien merchants, all tend to the same purpose.

对外国制造品和外国商人进口的所有商品征收高额关税， 都是出于同样的目的。

The exportation of the materials of manufacture is sometimes discouraged by absolute prohibitions, and sometimes by high duties.

制造材料的出口有时会受到绝对禁止，有时会受到高关税的阻碍。

The goods, both of the Spanish and English merchants, indeed, were, perhaps, subject to higher duties.

西班牙和英国商人的货物确实可能要缴纳更高的关税。

Higher duties are imposed upon the wines of France than upon those of Portugal, or indeed of any other country.

对法国葡萄酒征收的关税高于对葡萄牙或任何其他国家的葡萄酒征收的关税。

The exportation, however, of the instruments of trade, properly so called, is commonly restrained, not by high duties, but by absolute prohibitions.

然而，真正所谓的贸易工具的出口通常受到限制，不是高关税，而是绝对禁止。

Portugal does not content herself with imposing higher duties upon the importation of tobacco from any other country, but prohibits it under the severest penalties.

葡萄牙并不满足于对从任何其他国家进口的烟草征收更高的关税，而是以最严厉的处罚予以禁止。

The exportation of the materials of home produce, and of those which are the particular produce of our colonies, has sometimes been prohibited, and sometimes subjected to higher duties.

国内生产材料的出口， 以及我们殖民地特产的材料， 有时被禁止出口， 有时征收更高的关税。

There may be good policy in retaliations of this kind, when there is a probability that they will procure the repeal of the high duties or prohibitions complained of.

此类报复可能是个好政策，因为他们有可能促使废除所抱怨的高额关税或禁令。

The high duties upon the importation of corn, which, in times of moderate plenty, amount to a prohibition, give a like advantage to the growers of that commodity.

对进口玉米征收高额关税， 在适度丰收的时候， 相当于一种禁令， 这给该商品的种植者带来了同样的好处。

When a landed nation on the contrary, oppresses, either by high duties or by prohibitions, the trade of foreign nations, it necessarily hurts its own interest in two different ways.

相反，当一个陆地国家通过高关税或禁令压迫外国贸易时，它必然以两种不同的方式损害自己的利益。

When those high duties were imposed, Great Britain was the sole, and she still continues to be, the principal market, to which the sugars of the British colonies could be exported.

当征收这些高额关税时，英国是唯一的，并且仍然是英国殖民地的糖可以出口的主要市场。

Though it is taxed in England at three times, and in France at fifteen times its original price, those high duties seem to have no effect upon the wages of labour.

虽然英国对它征税是原价的三倍，在法国是原价的十五倍，但这些高额关税似乎对劳动工资没有影响。

That of beaver skins, of beaver wool, and of gum-senega, has been subjected to higher duties; Great Britain, by the conquests of Canada and Senegal, having got almost the monopoly of those commodities.

海狸皮、海狸毛和树胶的关税更高；英国通过征服加拿大和塞内加尔几乎垄断了这些商品。

Therefore, it is not strange that she shrank from hearing it flippantly discussed and marriage treated as a bargain to be haggled over, with little thought of its high duties, great responsibilities, and tender joys.

因此，她听到轻率地谈论婚姻，将婚姻视为讨价还价的交易而感到畏缩，而不考虑其崇高的职责、重大的责任和温柔的快乐，也就不足为奇了。