All the marvels of electricity, of modern medicine, of new modes of transport and labor-saving devices, were their gift.

电器、现代药物、新式交通和省力的用具，这些神奇之物就是他们送来的礼品。

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What we have gained in convenience from labor-saving devices over the past half-century, we have paid for in terms of a sharp decline in physical activity.

半个世纪以来，我们从各种节省人力的设备中得到很多便利，但这是以我们身体活动的大大减少为代价的。

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The changing role of women in this century, for example, has influenced the appearance and image of the so-called labor-saving devices in the home needed to minimize housework.

例如，本世纪妇女地位的改变已经影响到了所谓的胜利设备的外观及形象的改变，在家里这些设备被用使家务劳动减到最小。

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He lived in a better house with new labor-saving devices.

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Governments can save jobs by discouraging new technology or outlawing labor-saving devices like automatic elevators and automated telephone service.

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Businesses usually increase productivity or output per hour worked by developing labor-saving devices and processes, in recent years that has involved computers.

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So little is expected of kids that even adolescents may not know how to operate the many labor-saving devices their homes are filled with.

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