Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done.
铜匠亚历山大多多地害我,主必照他所行的报应他。
These early Mesopotamian cities engaged in a form of socialism, where farmers contributed their crops to public storehouses out of which workers, like metalworkers or builders or male models or whatever—would be paid uniform " wages" in grain.
这些早期的美索不达米亚城市具备某种社会主义形式,农民贡献自己的谷物到公共储存房,而工,比如建筑工、冶炼工或男模特会得到同样多的谷物作为工资。
Stored food can also feed priests, who provide religious justification for wars of conquest; artisans such as metalworkers, who develop swords, guns, and other technologies; and scribes, who preserve far more information than can be remembered accurately.
储存的食物还可以供牧师食用,他们为征服战争提供宗教理由;工匠,如金属工,他们开发剑、枪和其他技术;还有抄写员,他们保存的信息远远多于我们能准确记住的信息。