A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
劳动力
Labour
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
劳动的报酬是生命。这还不够吗?
Better lose your labour than your time in idleness.
宁可失去劳动，也不要虚度光阴。
The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.
我们面临的问题不是劳动力，而是劳动力的配置。
A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.
罢工会使本联盟失去许多有利的东西。
The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.
原材料的价格不随生产原材料的劳动力成本而直接波动。
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
一头骡子会心甘情愿地、耐心地为你工作十年，只为你踢你一次。
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
制作一幅卡通画通常要花费整整三天的时间，其中两天用于分娩，另一天用于消除分娩的表象。
To preserve a trading state from decline, the greatest care must be taken, to support a perfect balance between the hands employed in work and the demand for their labour.
为了使一个贸易国家不致衰落，必须极为谨慎地支持在工作中所雇用的人手和对其劳动力的需求之间取得完美的平衡。
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
因此，我们不能认为上帝创造了一种具有这种精神品质和力量的生命秩序，其唯一目的就是被用作畜生或劳动工具。
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
劳动力是第一个价格，最初的购买——所有东西的钱。世界上所有的财富最初并不是靠黄金和白银购买的，而是靠劳动购买的。
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
几乎没有什么问题会比确定太阳离地球的距离这个问题显得更加困难和困难了。不费多大力气就能完成。
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
在个别工业中，妇女劳工发挥重要作用，任何提倡提高工资、缩短工作时间等的运动，从一开始就不会因为没有组织的女工的态度而注定失败。