1. We produce a steady flow of labor-saving devices; we communicate rapidly through faxes, phone calls or emails rather than through personal contacts,
    我们发明了一系列节省劳力的装置；我们通过发传真、打电话或发电子邮件与他人迅速地进行交流, 而不是通过直接接触。

2. Widespread access to information technologies, for example, promises to condense the time required to change from labor- intensive assembly work to industries that involve engineering, marketing, and design.
    例如，信息技术的广泛应用有望缩短从劳动密集型的组装工业转向涉及工程、营销、设计等产业所需的时间。

3. The duke´s son demeaned himself by doing manual labor with his servants .
    公爵的儿子降低自己的身份和佣人一起做工。

4. There are laws against the exploitation of child labor.
    有禁止剥削童工的法律。

5. Time is one of the two elements that Americans save carefully, the other being labor.
    时间是美国人注意节约的两个要素之一，另一个则是工作。

6. The personal computer revolution and the invention of the Internet made the demand for skilled labor mushroom to such tremendous proportions that even if every American child were to study nothing but science from now on, we would be unable to keep p
    个人电脑革命和因特网的诞生导致了对熟练劳动者的需求猛增，以至从现在起即使每个美国孩子都去自然科学，我们在今后的几十年里还是无法赶上这种需求的增长速度。

7. Together, these young men are a kind of river — one that is out of control, eating at the foundations of things we hold dear: our freedom to move about; the fruits of labor; our own lives and those of people we value.
    这些年轻人聚合在一起构成了一条河流--一条已失去控制的河流，这条河流正吞噬着我们所珍视的东西的基础：我们的行动自由；我们的劳动果实；我们的生命，以及那些我们尊敬的人的生命。

8. A labor inspector took the Disney organization to court this week, contending that the company's dress and appearance code — which bans moustaches, beards, excess weight, short skirts and fancy stockings — offends individual liberty and violates Fren
    一位劳工问题督察员本周将迪斯尼公司告上了法庭，他声称公司的着装规定--不准蓄胡须，不准体重超标，不准穿超短裙和花哨的袜子--侵犯了个人自由，也违反了法国的劳工法。

9. Japanese workers labor about 200 more hours per year than the average of their American counterparts, according to figures from Japan's Labor Ministry.
    据日本劳动省的数据，日本工人每年要比一般的美国工人多干200小时的活。

10. Under pressure from the United States and other trading partners, who complain about the labor force working too much, Japan is working hard at the notion of working less hard.
    美国以及日本其它的贸易伙伴抱怨日本劳工过分辛苦，在他们的压力下，日本正努力推出干活不要那么拼命的观念。