For them, the present system means joyless drudgery, semistarvation, rags and premature death.

现在这个制度对他们意味着痛苦劳，饱，衣不蔽体生活，短命和夭折。

17 The service and tax that governors impose on people get more and more heavy.The escaper is punished by very inappropriate ways.Many people are banished to the frontier of country or killed.

主政者加负百姓身上劳税捐日愈沉，不履行义务者就施以极不相称惩罚，许多人发配边疆，不从者就处以死刑。

It is a labor to task the faculties of a man — such problems of profit and loss, of interest, of tare and tret,(8) and gauging of all kinds in it, as demand a universal knowledge.

这真是一个辛苦劳，考验着一个人全部官能，——这些赢利或损失问题，利息问题，扣除皮算问题，一切都要确实数字，非得有全宇宙知识不可啊。