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In this city, ten thousand women are always doing needlework for less than fifty cents per day, finding themselves;
在這個城市里，有一萬名女性始終從事每天少于五十美分的縫紉工作；
yet twice their number of capable, skillful seamstresses could find steady employment and good living in wealthy families
然而，有多達兩倍的有技能的縫紉工能夠找到穩定的工作，在富裕家庭生活得很好，
at not less than one dollar per day over and above board and lodging.
每天的收入不低于一美元，而且還提供膳食和住處。
He who is a good blacksmith, a fair millwright, a tolerable wagon maker,
他是個手藝很好的鐵匠，尚可的造水車木匠，還過得去的做四輪馬車的工匠，
and can chop timber, make fence, and manage a small farm if required, is always sure of work and fair recompense;
還能刨木料，做籬笆，需要的話還能經營小農場，始終有工做，收入還不錯；
while he or she who can keep books or teach music fairly, but knows how to do nothing else,
在他或她能管理圖書或者教音樂，可是不曉得如何做其他事情，
is in constant danger of falling into involuntary idleness and consequent beggary.
結果總是陷于非故意的懶惰和隨之出現的赤貧危險中。
It is a broad, general truth, that no boy was ever yet inured to daily, systematic, productive labor in field or shop
總的來說，這種傾向很明顯，沒有哪個小伙子整個成年的后半段
throughout the latter half of his minority, who did not prove a useful man, and was notable to find work whenever he wished it.
習慣于在地里或在店里終日勞作，他不想通過這種方式來證明自己是個有用的人，而是要找到不論何時都能善始善終的工作。
Yet to the ample and constant employment of a whole community, one prerequisite is indispensable,
然而，對于整個社會不斷涌現的就業大軍而言，一個前提是必不可少的，
that a variety of pursuits shall have been created or naturalized therein.
工作的多變性已經建立，或者從此被自然化。
A people who have but a single source of profit are uniformly poor, not because that vocation is necessarily ill-chosen,
僅有單一贏利手段的人，一律貧窮，并非由于職業選擇錯誤所致，
but because no single calling can employ and reward the varied capacities of male and female, old and young, robust and feeble.
而是因為沒有一種職業可以雇傭和使具有各種各樣能力的男性和女性，老人和年輕人，健壯的人和身體衰弱的人得到報償。
