来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代早期英国社会第2集第2集》

all those who were not of gentle blood.

这些人没有贵族血统
Their duty was to work,

他们的责任是工作
to get a living that was appropriate for their place in society,

在适当的社会地方谋生
to keep their families

哺育家庭
and to support all the rest.

并扶持其他的两个部分
They were advised by Dudley to avoid "covetousness" or greed,

达德利称他们应该远离贪欲
to avoid idleness and to avoid

远离惰怠并避免
what he called "Presumption above their degree";

任何所谓的"僭越行为"
they should keep their place.

他们应安分守己
They should also avoid "Grudging and murmuring"

不应对他们的出身
Against the fact that they were born, as he put it,

和地位怨声载道
"To live in labor and pain and for the most part of their time

"他们的人生应该挥汗如雨地工作