In those days, wages were supplemented with direct food distribution by the state.

在那些日子里， 国家直接分配食物来补充工资。

I have to pay you a whole day's wages for no work at all.

我必须付给你一整天的工资，根本没有工作。

A homogenous class of mixed-race day wage labourers began to emerge, whose heritage was  of the Khoi-San peoples, imported enslaved people, and European settlers.

一个由混血日薪工人组成的同质阶层开始出现，他们的血统是科伊桑人、进口奴隶和欧洲定居者。

It was a day of celebration, but also a day of sacrifice; the workers sacrificed that day's wages to demonstrate their commitment to gaining fair compensation for hard work.

这是一个庆祝的日子，也是一个牺牲的日子；工人们牺牲了当天的工资，以表明他们致力于为辛勤工作争取公平的报酬。