Do you wish to see her live a life devoid of industry and moral worth?

你愿意看到她过上一种缺乏勤勉和道德价值的生活吗？

The shopkeeper does nothing wrong, he gives the correct change, but does his action have moral worth?

店主没有做任何错事，他找了正确的钱，但他的行为具有道德价值吗？

But we still have to answer one more question, what gives an act its moral worth in the first place?

但我们还是必须回答另一个问题，是什么最先赋予行为以道德价值？

And in study after study, we find that people attach moral worth to effort regardless of what that effort produces.

在一次又一次的研究中，我们发现人们认为努力具有道德价值，而不管努力产生了什么。

It doesn't have moral worth, because the shopkeeper only did the right thing for the wrong reason, out of self-interest.

它没有道德价值，因为店主是做了正确的事，但是出于错的原因，是出于自身利益。

Victory in the East promised the capture of the Confederate capital of Richmond, a stroke of moral worth, hardly to be overestimated.

东部的胜利保证了邦联首都里士满的占领，这是一种道德价值的中风， 几乎不会被高估。

They can be questions of clarification or they can be challenges, if you want to challenge this idea that only the motive of duty confers moral worth on the action.

可以是想要弄清某个问题，或挑战某个观点，倘若你想要挑战只有职责动机赋予行为道德价值这一观点。

Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, and holds the key to those treasure-houses of knowledge from which the world has drawn its wealth both of wisdom and of moral worth.

坚持不懈是那些信念坚定的人主导性的精神动力，其把持着开启那些知识宝库的钥匙，全世界的人都可以从中获取智慧和道德的财富。