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Chapter 14 共通関係

例題 14.2.3

アメリカ人にとっての肉体労働の意味（女性目線）　

Most of the people who settled the United States were poor. The country they came to was a wilderness. Land had to be cleared of trees in order to make farms; mines had to be developed; houses shops, and public buildings had to be built. Everyone had to help build them. Manual labor was highly valued. Later it was the man who worked with his head to achieve success in business and industry who was looked up to. Now there is in America a curious combination of pride in having risen to a position where it is no longer necessary to depend upon manual labor for a living and genuine delight in what one is able to accomplish with his hands.

出典：Gladys G. Doty & Janet Ross : "Language and Life in the U.S.A.
American English for Foreign Students", 1960

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