an able-bodied person can take their own life without anyone else's assistance but it is almost physically impossible for someone who is completely paralysed to die by suicide.
一个健全的人无需他人帮助就能够很好地料理自我,但对于那些想以自杀来结束自己生命的瘫痪者来说,这几乎是不可能的。
knowledge is unemployed 「 it is to show the able-bodied person that has gotten higher education is in a kind of status that does not get its to use.」
「知识失业」是指受过高等教育的劳动力处于不得其用的一种状态。
almost no able-bodied person in china escaped the call to work. men who had never held a tool in their hands were sent to the stone pits.
当时中国的体格健全的人都奉召去服劳役,几乎没有一个人能幸免,一些从来手里没有拿过工具的人被送到采石场。