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劳动
Labor
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
但是,由于许多人努力获取知识而不是生活得很好,他们经常受到欺骗,从他们的劳动中收获很少或没有好处。
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
在家庭关系之外,人类最强烈的同情纽带应该是团结所有民族、语言和种族的劳动人民。
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
必须有劳动组织。这是一个组织的时代。资本组织,劳动也必须组织。
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
我相信任何一个有共同理解的人,通过文化、关心、注意和劳动,都能使自己成为除伟大诗人之外他所喜欢的任何人。
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.
人类对牛的不劳而获的耕作剥夺了属于自由劳动的权利,这是我们人类赖以生存和幸福所必需的。
I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
我一直对劳工运动很感兴趣。如果我希望能有另一种生活,我愿意成为劳工运动初期的先锋女性。
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
工会主义的本质是社会的提升。劳工运动一直是无产者、被鄙视者、被忽视者、受压迫者和穷人的避难所。
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
劳动需要在做好工作时的自豪和快乐,需要一种创造或做一些美丽或有用的事情的感觉——需要像兄弟姐妹一样受到尊严和尊重。
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.
几个人每人拥有一万到二十万英亩的土地。除了荒凉的山,和荒凉的旷野,穷乏的作工的人,无处可歇。
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。
Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.
因此,无论是对科学还是对工业,都有必要进行分工和联合。我接受,我给予——这就是人类的生活。每个人都有自己的方向。
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
和平需要最英勇的劳动和最艰难的牺牲。它需要比战争更伟大的英雄主义。它要求对真理有更大的忠诚和更纯洁的良心。
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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。
Labour has a bitter root, but a sweet taste.
劳动有苦的根,但有甜的味。
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped.
在我们为争取公民权利而进行的光荣斗争中,我们必须防止被“工作权”等虚假口号所迷惑。它没有提供“权利”和“作品”。它的目的是摧毁工会和集体谈判的自由……我们要求制止这一欺诈行为。
The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.
只有劳动力具有流动性,才能充分发挥劳动力的潜力。
Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.
作为劳动力的一员和全职父母,意味着在一个反应迟钝的社会里,要努力克服压倒性的优势。
Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
世界上的一切都是劳动买来的。