These days, people who do manual work often receive far more money than people who work in offices.

如今，从事体力劳动的人的收入一般要比坐办公室的人高出许多。

Time was also set aside for reading and manual work, which might include gardening, cleaning or copying manuscripts.

还为阅读和手工劳动留出了时间，其中可能包括园艺、清洁或抄写手稿。

Those job in industries like healthcare and the military that require manual work but would benefit from visual aids.

以及那些在医疗和军队等行业需要体力劳动但会受益于视觉辅助的工作。

I know — just joking. A blue-collar worker is an expression we use to describe someone who does manual work.

我知道，我只是开个玩笑。蓝领一族形容的是那些从事体力劳动的人。

Manual work is easy to find.

手动工作很容易找到。

And if the manual work is like looking for needles in a haystack, then the other work is like shrinking the haystack.

如果人工调查就像大海捞针，那么自动化调查就像缩小海域。

The mantel and mantelpiece were manual work.

壁炉架和壁炉台都是手工活儿。

A " blue-collar worker" is someone who is usually doing " manual" (manual) work.

“蓝领工人”是通常从事“体力”（手工）工作的人。

Vocational education is also usually related to what we would call manual work.

职业教育通常也与我们所说的体力劳动有关。

The imposing system of measurements and tests which we have developed for manual work—from industrial engineering to quality control—is not applicable to knowledge work.

我们为体力劳动所设立的一套强制性的检测系统——从工程设计到质量控制——对脑力劳动来说，就显得不大适用了。

A great deal of work is sedentary and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles

大量的工作是坐着干的，多数体力活儿只活动几块特定的肌肉。

For manual work, we need only efficiency; that is, the ability to do things right rather than the ability to get the right things done.

对体力劳动来说，我们需要的只是效率，即只需要有把事情做好的能力就行，并不需要你去选择该做哪些事情。

This is typically what we would also call " manual work" – work that you do with your hands, physical work.

这通常也就是我们所说的“体力劳动”——你用手做的工作，体力劳动。

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective. This is not capable of being measured by any of the yardsticks for manual work.

要做该做的事，这是脑力劳动显得有效的关键。要想用体力劳动的尺码来衡量脑力劳动是绝对行不通的。

It is very satisfying, in fact kenkey is loved by most people who do manual work because it fills the tummy and it takes you almost a whole day before you feel hungry again.

它非常令人满意，事实上，大多数从事体力劳动的人都喜欢kenkey，因为它能填饱肚子，而且你几乎要过一整天才会再次感到饥饿。

The overwhelming majority of the manual work was done by landless black labourers, the descendants  of the Khoisan who had been stripped of their ancestral lands under Dutch rule.

绝大多数体力劳动是由没有土地的黑人劳工完成的，他们是在荷兰统治下被剥夺祖传土地的科伊桑人的后裔。

He dug with a kind of fury, relishing the manual work, glorying in the non-magic of it, for everydrop of his sweat and every blister felt like a gift to the elf who had saved their lives.

他拼命地挖着，不使用任何魔法--因为他是那么的尊敬多比，每一滴晶莹的汗水和每一个水泡都凝结着无尽的感恩之情，就像给这个小精灵的礼物一样，感谢它为救大家而所做的一切。

We have learned how to measure efficiency and how to define quality in manual work during the last hundred years—to the point where we have been able to multiply the output of the individual worker tremendously.

在过去的一百年中，我们已经学会了如何来测量体力劳动的效率，如何来规定对体力活的质量要求．这使我们有可能让每个工人的产量大幅度地增加。

Increasingly, the majority of people who have been schooled to use knowledge, theory, and concept rather than physical force or manual skill work in an organization and are effective insofar as they can make a contribution to the organization.

那些受过教育的，懂得如何使用知识、理论和概念的人渐渐地取代了需要体力技能的人而成为机构里的主力。当他们在各自的领域里可以为机构作出贡献时，他们往往就很讲效率。

Well, I've got four " our" -ending words from British English spelling: " behaviour" , " colour" , " labour" , -that's a little spade there for digging, doing a bit of manual work-" rumour" , passing a rumour about someone.

好吧，我有四个以“我们” 结尾的英式英语拼写词：“behavior” 、“colour”、“labour” ，-那是用来挖掘的小铲子， 做一些体力劳动-“rumour” ，散布关于某人的谣言。