A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
劳动
Labor
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
没有什么比高效地做根本不应该做的事情更没用的了。
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
劳动力是第一个价格，最初的购买——所有东西的钱。
We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.
我们必须学会像兄弟一样生活在一起，否则我们将像傻瓜一样一起灭亡。
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
鞭笞可能迫使人们从事体力劳动，但不能强迫他们从事精神创造。
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
只有当你的祖父是一名劳动者并为此感到高兴时，你才是真正的爱国主义者。
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
努力使你胸中那颗叫做良心的天国之火的小火花继续存在。
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
每个人都是不诚实的，谁靠别人的劳动生活，无论他是否占据了一个宝座。
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
劳动仍然是，而且永远是一切有价值的东西不可避免的代价。
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
如果努力工作是一件如此美妙的事情，那么富人肯定会把它藏在心里。
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.
永久的劳动分工不可避免地会造成职业和阶级的不平等和冲突。
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
没有劳动就没有卓越。一个人不能梦想自己变得有用或幸福。
My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'
我丈夫看起来还不错。我临盆时对他说，‘如果她长得丑怎么办?你丑。”
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
我毫不怀疑，这个地方的大多数废奴主义者会优先光顾一家免费的劳工商店;但我们没有在辛辛那提筹集资金。
If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.
如果要有一个新的欧洲，不仅要有一个共同的市场，而且要有巨大的劳动力流动。
Many a man labours for the day he will never live to see.
许多人都在为他活不到的那一天而劳动。
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
毫无疑问，一个人要努力改善自己的条件，但首先要改善自己。
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
尽管工会有种种缺点，但它为人类所做的贡献，超过了以往任何一个男性组织。他们在正派、诚实、教育、改善种族、培养人的品性方面所做的工作，比任何其他男人的交往都要多。
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
艺术是人在劳动中表达快乐的方式。