is that capital-- that labor is a commodity

是把劳动当成一种商品
and the labor theory of value more or less applies to that commodity.

劳动价值论或多或少应用在商品中
So how much do you have to pay for the commodity

那你要给这称为劳动力的商品
which he calls labor power or laboring powering?

付多少钱呢
Well you have to pay what it costs to feed the worker,

你要支付工人的伙食费
to clothe the worker, to rear his or her children,

购买衣服还有抚养孩子的费用
you have--the analogy is imagine you have a plow horse,

你可以做类比假设你有一匹耕田马
what does it cost you to maintain the plow horse?

你需要支付那些费用来维持它呢
Well that same reasoning Marx applies to the workforce.

马克思将同样的理论应用在劳动力上
You pay wages that are broadly consistent with that.

你所支付的工资与其是一致的
So in my diagram the laboring power is represented by the blue

在这图表里蓝色代表劳动力
and capital pays labor that much for its activity.

资本家为劳动力的活动支付这么多资金