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劳动
Labor
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
因为劳动分工要求个人取得越来越片面的成就，而片面追求的最大进步往往意味着缺乏个人的个性。
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
听一个临盆的妇女在临盆时的哭喊——看看这个垂死的男人在生命的最后关头所作的挣扎，然后告诉我，这样开始和结束的事情是否可以用来享受。
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
劳动先于资本，并且独立于资本。资本只是劳动的果实，如果没有劳动，资本就不可能存在。劳动高于资本，理应得到更高的重视。
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
一个人不是因为专心而无所事事。有看得见的劳动，也有看不见的劳动。思即苦干，思即行。双臂交叉起作用，双手合十起作用。仰望天堂是一种创造的行为。
My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: "We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing."
朋友们，我们要的是团结劳动。我们不想互相指责，而是要团结我们的力量，对彼此说:“我们必须在一起;我们的主人团结在一起，我们必须做同样的事情。”
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
然而，正是在这种孤独中，最深刻的活动才开始。正是在这里，你发现了没有运动的行动，那是深沉的休息的劳动，在朦胧中看到的远景，以及超越所有欲望的满足，它的极限延伸到无限。
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
是广告客户为订户提供报纸。毫无疑问，在这个国家，如果没有详尽的广告支持，报社的出版人所得到的报酬，会比最卑微的机修工所得到的报酬还要少。
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。
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
资本和劳动力之间的武装竞争即将到来。他们彼此反对，不是用言语和争辩，而是用炮弹、火药和大炮。上层阶级已经厌倦了下层阶级的疯狂咆哮，他们想要阻止他们。
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
在我们这样一个文明近现代的国家，几乎无穷无尽的物质财富财富带来了资本和劳动产业的风险，物质利益在某种程度上吸引了人们的注意力，这是很自然的，但在其他地方却不为人知。
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。
The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.
必须承认工会组织的重要作用:它们的目标是代表各种类型的工人，它们在社会经济进步方面的合法合作，以及培养它们实现共同利益的责任感。
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This is a business of love and labor.
这是一个爱与劳动的事业。
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。
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
资本是死劳动力，就像吸血鬼一样，只有吸吮活劳动力才能生存，而且活得越多，吸吮的劳动力就越多。
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。
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
只有傻瓜才会试图剥夺劳动人民选择加入工会的权利。
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。