Technology has cut out much of life's donkeywork, and we have more freedoms than ever: we can wear what we like and communicate with hundreds of friends at once at the click of a mouse.

科技已经消除了我们生活中的许多苦力工作，我们比以往任何时候都更自由：我们可以穿自己喜欢的衣服，点击一下鼠标就可以与数百个朋友交流。

By shifting the donkeywork of supplying energy for transport to power stations—which generally burn coal—they make drivers less vulnerable to the vagaries of the petroleum trade.

甚至调侃道可以把交通的能源供应转交给发电厂—发电厂通常是烧煤的—这样美国的车主们就不用对变化无常的石油交易担忧了。

Although this drivel is copied during the first stage of the process by which genetic information is used to build the proteins that do the donkeywork of maintaining life, it is then cut out of the copies before they are transferred to the protein-making machinery.

ECONOMIST: The ��book of life�� may be missing half of its words