But it's winter, and th' childer will clem'.

但现在是冬天， 孩子会活下来的。

We'll just clem them to death first; and see who'll work for 'em then.

我们先把他们弄死； 看看谁会为他们工作。

Yo're not to think we'd ha' letten 'em clem, for all we're a bit pressed oursel'; if neighbours doesn't see after neighbours, I dunno who will'.

你不要以为我们会放过他们，因为我们自己有点压力；如果邻居不照顾邻居，我不知道谁会。

Our business being, yo' understand, to take the bated' wage, and be thankful, and their business to bate us down to clemming point, to swell their profits.

我们的业务是， 你明白，拿下工资，心存感激，而他们的业务是把我们压低到清洁点， 增加他们的利润。

" But I can't get there; I'm most clemmed with hunger and drought" . And Tom sank down upon the door-step, and laid his head against the post.

“但我无法到达那里；我被饥饿和干旱困住了”。汤姆倒在门阶上，把头靠在柱子上。

'I know nought of your ways down South. I have heerd they're a pack of spiritless, down-trodden men; welly clemmed to death; too much dazed wi' clemming to know when they're put upon. Now, it's not so here.

“我对你南下的路一无所知。我听说他们是一群没有精神、被践踏的人；被活生生地活活活活饿死；太茫然了，不知道什么时候戴上。现在，这里不是这样。