The bargain is very pure: Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.
这个交易非常纯粹:员工付出大量的体力或脑力劳动,员工则从中获取维持生活的金钱。
The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.
劳工部使用的调查会询问人们在参考周内是否工作了少于35个小时。
The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice.
随后,调查询问他们是否在那周工作少于35小时,是因为他们想做兼职工作,还是因为别无选择。
They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.
只有当他们告诉调查员自己是出于自愿而每周工作少于35小时时,才会被归类为自愿兼职工人。
“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.
Gary Eberle在《Sacred Time》一书中写道:未来像空瓶子一样沿着一条无法停止且几乎无限的传送带向我们涌来,我们感受到一种压力,必须在它们经过时填满这些不同大小的瓶子(天、小时、分钟),因为如果它们未被填满而通过,我们就会浪费了它们。
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