当中情局的援助资金耗干了的时候,那些为了美国的美元战斗多年的年轻人没有其他技能去养家糊口,他们最终只能被人雇佣去杀戮。
By the time that CIA funding dries up, young men who have made their living for years fighting on the American dime have no other way to support their family than killing for hire.
《施莱弗报告》中最令人震惊的发现是,女性占据了美国工作人口的一半,还是2/3美国家庭中的主要或共同的养家糊口者。
The Shriver Report’s most stunning finding is that women now make up half of the American workforce, and are the primary breadwinner or co-breadwinner in 2/3 of American families.
凯鲁亚克通过这段文字批判20世纪50年代盛行美国的利益主义,当然,他的文字抓住了一座城市兴旺的关键:数以百万计为养家糊口奔波的人。
Kerouac was criticising 1950s consumerism, of course, but his description captures what makes a city thrive: millions hustling for a buck.
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