Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer.

可以说，无论何时何地， 同等数量的劳动对劳动者来说都具有同等价值。

It is, as it were, a certain quantity of labour stocked and stored up, to be employed, if necessary, upon some other occasion.

可以说，它是储存和储存一定数量的劳动，以备必要时在其他场合使用。

By the quantities of labour, we can, with the greatest accuracy, estimate it, both from century to century, and from year to year.

根据劳动量，我们可以最准确地估计一个世纪又一个世纪、每年的劳动量。

They have become worth, not only a greater quantity of silver, but a greater quantity of labour and subsistence than before.

他们变得有价值，不仅比以前有更多的银子，而且比以前有更多的劳动和生活资料。

It cost a greater quantity of labour to bring the goods to market.

将商品推向市场需要更多的劳动力。

With a given labour force there is a definite limit to the quantity of labour embodied in roundabout processes which can be used to advantage.

对于给定的劳动力，在迂回过程中体现的劳动量有一个明确的限制，可以用来发挥优势。

A rent, therefore, reserved in corn, is liable only to the variations in the quantity of labour which a certain quantity of corn can purchase.

因此，保留在谷物中的地租，只对一定数量的谷物所能购买的劳动量的变化有影响。

It might continue to be expressed by the same quantity of money, but it would command a greater quantity of labour.

它可能继续用同样数量的货币来表示， 但它会要求更多的劳动。

The greater part of people, too, understand better what is meant by a quantity of a particular commodity, than by a quantity of labour.

与劳动量相比，大多数人对特定商品的数量的含义的理解也更好。

In different states of society, in different states of improvement, therefore, such commodities will represent, or be equivalent, to very different quantities of labour.

因此，在不同的社会状态下， 在不同的改进状态下， 这些商品将代表或等价于非常不同的劳动量。

From year to year, on the contrary, silver is a better measure than corn, because equal quantities of it will more nearly command the same quantity of labour.

相反，年复一年，白银比玉米更适合作为衡量标准，因为等量的白银更接近于支配等量的劳动。

It tends, indeed, to lower somewhat the average money price of corn, but not to diminish its real value, or the quantity of labour which it is capable of maintaining.

的确，它会稍微降低谷物的平均货币价格，但不会降低它的实际价值，也不会降低它能够维持的劳动量。

Every other commodity, however, will, at any particular time, purchase a greater or smaller quantity of labour, in proportion to the quantity of subsistence which it can purchase at that time.

然而，每一种其他商品在任何特定时间都会购买或多或少的劳动量，这与它当时所能购买的生活资料量成正比。

They contain the value of a certain quantity of labour, which we exchange for what is supposed at the time to contain the value of an equal quantity.

它们包含一定量劳动的价值， 我们用它交换当时假定包含等量价值的东西。

That subject, or, what is the same thing, the price of that subject, can afterwards, if necessary, put into motion a quantity of labour equal to that which had originally produced it.

那个商品，或者说是同一个东西，那个商品的价格，如果有必要，以后可以推动与最初生产它的劳动量相等的劳动量。

The ultimate quantity of value will not increase indefinitely, relatively to the quantity of labour employed, as the processes adopted become more and more roundabout, even if their physical efficiency is still increasing.

相对于所雇用的劳动量，价值的最终量不会无限增加，因为所采用的过程变得越来越迂回，即使它们的物理效率仍在增加。

As it costs a greater quantity of labour and subsistence to bring them to market, so, when they are brought thither they represent, or are equivalent to a greater quantity.

由于将它们带到市场需要更多的劳动和生活资料，因此，当它们被带到市场时，它们代表或等同于更大的数量。

Their real price, the quantity of labour and subsistence which was given away for them, was about one-third more than their nominal price is apt to express to us in the present times.

他们的实际价格，即为他们付出的劳动和生活资料的数量，比他们在当今时代容易向我们表达的名义价格高出大约三分之一。

Though it required five times the quantity of other goods to purchase it, it would require only half the quantity of labour either to purchase or to produce it.

尽管购买它需要五倍于其他商品的数量， 但购买或生产它只需要一半的劳动量。

It can always purchase or command a greater or smaller quantity of labour, and somebody can always be found who is willing to do something in order to obtain it.

它总是可以购买或支配或多或少的劳动量，并且总能找到愿意为获得它而做某事的人。