I loathed the thought of such ingenious cruelty, and resolved to punish the artificer in kind.

我厌恶这种巧妙的残忍行为， 并决心以同样的方式惩罚这个技师。

Imagine what our artificers could do with such a device.

‪想想咱们的工匠 ‪用上这样的设备该有多能干。

The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers.

农夫既不尝试制造其中的一种， 也不尝试制造另一种， 而是雇用那些不同的工匠。

The labour, on the contrary, of artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, naturally does fix and realize itself in some such vendible commodity.

相反，工匠、制造商和商人的劳动自然会固定和体现在某些这样的可销售商品上。

But the public would be a gainer, the work of all artificers coming in this way much cheaper to market.

但公众会从中受益， 因为所有技师的作品都以这种方式进入市场， 价格要便宜得多。

John Smith—brown as autumn as to skin, white as winter as to clothes—was a satisfactory specimen of the village artificer in stone.

约翰·史密斯——皮肤像秋天一样棕色，衣服像冬天一样白——是一个令人满意的乡村石匠样本。

The condition of artificers is, if possible, still worse.

如果可能的话， 技师的情况会更糟。

Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers.

每个商人或工匠的生计都来自于为一百或一千个不同的顾客服务， 而不是一个。

It is reasonable, therefore, that in Europe the wages of mechanics, artificers, and manufacturers, should be somewhat higher than those of common labourers.

因此，在欧洲，机械师、工匠和制造商的工资应该比普通工人的工资高一些， 这是合理的。

The lowest order of artificers, journeymen tailors, accordingly, earn their half-a-crown a-day, though eighteen pence may be reckoned the wages of common labour.

因此，最低级的工匠，裁缝，每天只能挣半个克朗，尽管十八便士可以算作普通劳动的工资。