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Radio and television exhibit another element of this yearning for laziness: the idea of "push-button power";
廣播和電視反映著這種追求懶散思想的另一方面，即"鍵鈕萬能"的思想。
by pushing a button, or turning a knob on my machine, I have the power to produce music, speeches, ball games, and on the television set, to command events of the world to appear before my eyes.
只需按一下按鍵，或擰一下旋鈕，就可以播放出音樂、講話、球賽實況，或是在電視機上將世界大事收之于眼前。
The pleasure of driving cars certainly rests partly upon this same satisfaction of the wish for push-button power.
駕駛汽車使人感到愉快，其部分的原因就是由于鍵鈕萬能的理想的實現所帶來的滿足感。
By the effortless pushing of a button, a powerful machine is set in motion; little skill and effort are needed to make the driver feel that he is the ruler of space.
只需輕輕一按按鈕，便能發動一臺大功率的發動機，駕車人無需掌握什么技藝，付出任何努力，便能體會到當空間的主宰的滋味。
But there is far more serious and deep-seated reaction to the meaninglessness and boredom of work.
然而，勞動變得毫無意義而且令人厭煩之后所帶來的另一種結果卻還要嚴重而根深蒂固得多。
It is a hostility toward work which is much less conscious than our craving for laziness and inactivity.
這就是對勞動的敵對心理。這種心理遠不如追求懶散無為那樣容易被人們意識到。
Many a businessman feels himself the prisoner of his business and the commodities he sells; he has a feeling of fraudulency about his product and a secret contempt for it.
許多商人覺得自己變成了自己所經營的企業及其所出售的商品的俘虜;他感覺到自己所售商品有騙人的味道，并從內心里蔑視它們。
He hates his customers, who force him to put up a show in order to sell.
他憎恨顧客，因為是他們迫使他弄虛作假來促銷商品;
He hates his competitors because they are a threat; his employees as well as his superiors, because he is in a constant competitive fight with them.
他憎恨競爭對手，因為他們對他構成威脅;他憎恨自己的顧員和上司，因為他與他們永遠處于一種互相傾軋的明爭暗斗狀況。
Most important of all, he hates himself, because he sees his life passing by, without making any sense beyond the momentary intoxication of success.
但他最為痛恨的還是他自己，因為他眼見著自己的有生之年，除了贏利而帶來一時陶醉之外，都在毫無意義地白白流逝。
Of course, this hate and contempt for others and for oneself, and for the very things one produces, is mainly unconscious,
當然，這種對他人、對自己以及對自己的產品所懷有的憎恨和輕蔑，多半是無意識的，
and only occasionally comes up to awareness in a fleeting thought, which is sufficiently disturbing to be set aside as quickly as possible.
只是偶爾上升到意識中來，但也因憎怒過甚而一閃而過。
(from A Rhetorical Reader, Invention and Design,by Forrest D. Burt and E. Cleve Want)
(摘自福里斯特D伯特和E克利夫萬特《修辭讀物發明與設計》)
