At work, people pretty much know what they're supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.

在工作中，人们很清楚他们应该做什么：工作，赚钱，为了获得收入而做他们必须做的事情。

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The family's increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren's Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman".

家里日益贫困的生活迫使狄更斯在12岁时辍学，在沃伦的鞋油仓库工作。这是一家鞋油厂，那里工作的男孩嘲笑他是“年轻的绅士”。

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For example, 25% of the working people interviewed described themselves as very happy at work.

例如，25%受访的工作者认为自己在工作中非常快乐。

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Like when they devised the first engines or the first nuclear reactors, it didn't work so well at first and then from the experience of many people working on it, over many years, a body of knowledge emerges and that's what we call technology.

这和发明出第一个发动机,或者第一个核反应堆时一样,最开始总是存在很多问题,但随着很多人不断努力去完善它,一种理论体系才得以不断发展,这就是我们所说的科技

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And they have to put in a certain amount of work time, working at the Food Co-op.

他们得抽出一部分时间去食品供销社工作。

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