🇨🇳「好多人都跟我说，我是个特别坚强的人。但其实我想说，我算不上是坚强，我只是不想活在旁人的同情里。我一直觉得，自己虽然是残疾人，但和正常人没有两样。我有独立的思想，也有属于自己的尊严，我不需要别人的施舍，也不需要多余的同情。我只想要一份公平的机会，靠自己的双手踏踏实实地，好好把日子过下去。」 🇬🇧 “A lot of people have told me that I’m an especially strong person. But actually, I want to say that I wouldn’t call myself strong. I just don’t want to live in other people’s pity. I’ve always felt that although I am a person with a disability, I am no different from anyone else. I have my own independent thoughts and my own dignity. I don’t need anyone’s charity, nor do I need unnecessary sympathy. All I want is a fair opportunity, so that I can rely on my own hands, live a steady and honest life, and make the best of it.” 🇨🇳 在中国，数以千计的残障人士——包括独腿或独臂者——选择在最艰苦的建筑工地工作，以抚养他们的家庭。 🇬🇧 In China, thousands of people with disabilities—including those without a leg or an arm—choose to work on the toughest construction sites to provide for their families. 🇨🇳 尽管身体存在限制，这些人依然跛行于脚手架之上，搬运砖块与水泥，与健全的同事并肩承担着繁重的体力劳动。 🇬🇧 Despite their physical limitations, these people limp around scaffolding, carry bricks and cement, and perform heavy physical labor side by side with their healthy colleagues. 🇨🇳 这些工人坚决拒绝依靠施舍或同情生活——对他们而言，赚到的每一个元都是个人独立、尊严与平等的证明。 🇬🇧 These workers categorically refuse to live on charity or sympathy—for them, every yuan earned is proof of personal independence, dignity, and equality. 🇨🇳 据中国残疾人联合会（CDPF）的数据，中国有超过8500万名存在不同程度残疾的人士。处于劳动年龄段的残疾人约为3200万名；每年，得益于国家配额政策（要求将1.5%的岗位提供给残疾人）及自主创业项目，有超过50万名残疾人在城镇和乡村开启新工作。 🇬🇧 According to data from the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF), over 85 million people with various disabilities live in China. About 32 million people with disabilities belong to the working-age population. Annually, over 500,000 people with disabilities start a new job in urban and rural areas thanks to state quota policies (requiring 1.5% of jobs to be provided to people with disabilities) and self-employment programs. 🇨🇳「劳动使人高贵，并给人带来真正尊严的感觉。」—— 弗朗西斯·培根 🇬🇧 “Labor ennobles man and gives him a true sense of dignity.” – Francis Bacon 🇨🇳 历史故事： 🇬🇧 Historical story: 🇨🇳 1883年，纽约布鲁克林大桥竣工，这是19世纪最伟大的工程成就之一；项目的总指挥权由首席工程师华盛顿·罗布林承担，然而他在施工期间患上了严重的减压病，导致瘫痪、部分失明并卧床不起；尽管身患严重残疾且无法亲手踏上建筑工地，他依然拒绝放弃，在妻子埃米莉的协助下，透过卧室的窗户指导了长达11年的每一个施工细节，证明了人类的意志比任何身体限制都更为强大。 🇬🇧 In 1883, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge was completed in New York—one of the greatest engineering achievements of the 19th century; the main leadership of the project was taken over by chief engineer Washington Roebling, who during construction developed severe caisson disease, remaining paralyzed, partially blind, and bedridden; despite his severe disabling condition and inability to step onto the construction site, he refused to give up and for 11 years guided every detail of the construction through his bedroom window with the help of his wife Emily, proving that human willpower is stronger than any physical limitation. #爱 #自强不息 #靠双手生活 #拒绝同情 #建筑工人 #Love #SelfReliance #WorkWithDignity #RefuseSympathy #ConstructionWorker - @cute__hana