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摘要：Did you ever stop to think that there are hundreds of people working for you every day? Perhaps you don' t see how that can be tru

Hundreds of people work for you.

数百人在为你工作。

Did you ever stop to think that there are hundreds of people working for you every day? Perhaps you don' t see how that can be true. Let us think a moment. That orange or apple or grapefruit you ate for breakfast—did it just drop from the tree on to your table? The wool in the clothes you are wearing—did you take it from the sheep and put it on? No. The fruit you eat comes to you because men and women have planted trees, picked the ripe fruit, and in other ways helped you to have it. Your clothes are the work of sheep-herders, sheep-shearers, cotton-pickers, cloth-makers, railroad men, and others.

你可曾停下来想一想，每天有数百人为你劳作？也许你觉得这不大可能。咱们思考片刻。你早餐吃的橙子、苹果或者葡萄柚，难道是自己从树上掉到你桌上的吗？你身上衣服里的羊毛，难道是你亲自从羊身上取下来穿上的吗？并非如此。你吃的水果之所以能到你手中，是因为无数男女种植果树、采摘成熟果实，并通过其他诸多环节助力，你才能享用。你身上的衣服则凝聚了牧羊人、剪羊毛工、采棉工、织布工、铁路工人以及其他众多人员的劳动。

Now do you see that there are really many, many people working for you? Yes, the world is full of workers. They are working that you and I may have food to eat, clothes to wear, homes to live in, and other things to make us happy and comfortable.

现在你明白确实有许许多多的人为你工作了吧？没错，这世界到处都是劳动者。他们辛勤劳作，以便你我能有食物果腹、有衣服蔽体、有房屋安身，还有其他各种东西，让我们的生活幸福又舒适。

In this part of your book, you will read stories that tell how some of the world' s work is done. First, you will be carried back to the time when our country was young, and you will see the busiest man of those days making something that meant greater comfort to thousands. Then you will visit groves of golden oranges, watch sheep losing their warm coats of wool, see some boys working faithfully so that they may have a playground, and last of all, sail out to capture some blackfish.

在这本书的这一部分，你将读到一些故事，讲述世界上的部分工作是如何完成的。首先，你会穿越回我们国家尚年轻的时代，目睹那个时期最忙碌的人制造出某种物件，为成千上万的人带来了更多舒适。接着，你会走进金黄的橘树林，观看绵羊褪去温暖的羊毛，看看一些男孩为了拥有一个操场而踏实劳作，最后，出海去捕捉一些黑鱼。

grapefruit

n. 西柚；葡萄柚；葡萄柚树

=grape葡萄+fruit水果

ripe （水果、谷物）等成熟的

mature 成熟的，理智的

maturity

n. （思想行为、作品等）成熟；发育成熟，长大成人；到期

adultness

n. 老成；成熟

grown

adj.长大的，成年的