Laborial Staff (2)

普通员工（2）

A: With tomorrow being Labor Day and all, I think it would be a nice gesture to let all members of the laborial staff leave work an hour early. What do you say?

A：明天就是劳动节了，我想让所有的普通员工提前1小时下班以示友好。你觉得怎样？

B: What? That sounds perfectly ridiculous. Labor Day is a holiday for everyone, not just laborial staff... and we get the whole day off tomorrow anyway, so what’s the point of an extra hour tonight?

B：你说什么？这听起来太荒唐了。劳动节是所有人的节日，不仅是属于普通员工……而且不论如何我们明天都要放一天假，那今晚给他们额外放假一小时又有什么意义？

A: While we all get Labor Day off as a holiday, the real purpose of the holiday is to remember all the people who do manual or other hard labor. It’s to celebrate those who work doing what other people might not be willing to do. I think we ought to do something in honor of the common worker.

A：虽然我们都把劳动节当节日来过，但这个节日的真正目的是为了纪念所有从事体力劳动或其他辛苦出力的人。赞美这些人，因为他们所做的工作是其他人所不愿做的。我想我们该做点什么，对这类普通工人表示敬意。

B: So if we did allow the laborial force to go home early, how many people are we talking about?

B：如果我们真的让工人早点下班，究竟是会有多少人？

A: In our company, the laborial force makes up 60% of our workers. We’d just be letting slightly over half the folks out a little early.

A：在我们公司里，60%是普通员工。我们只是让一半多一点的人早走。