In the Code of Hammurabi, where someone's ox kills a child, then the ox owner's child is killed.

在汉穆拉比法典里，如果某人的牛杀死了一个小孩，那么这头牛的主人的小孩也应处死。

In Babylon, the Code of Hammurabi was engraved on a tall stele.

在古巴比伦，著名的《汉摩拉比法典》即被刻写在一块高大的石碑上。

Conclusion: the Code of Hammurabi incarnates the idea of justice of the Old Babylonians, which not quite the same as our modern idea of justice.

结论：《汉穆拉比法典》体现了古巴比伦人的正义观，它与我们现代的正义观不完全相同。

Although we don't know much about Sumerian law, scholars agree that the Code of Hammurabi, written by a Babylonian monarch, reproduces Sumerian law fairly exactly.

虽然我们对苏美尔人的法律了解不多，学者们同意巴比伦君王书写的汉摩拉比的法令，公平的严密的复制了苏美尔人的法律。

The law code of Hammurabi is available to us and there's a preface to it in which he basically explains why you should obey the rules that he now is laying down for you.

《汉谟拉比法典》仍现存于世，在法典的前言里，法典作者实际上解释了为什么他将在后文中列出的法条应该被人们遵守。