1. Rat Catcher

　　1.捕鼠者

　　Someone pays the Pied Piper. In fact, for centuries, catching mice was a lucrative and ordinary job, yet these brave men did not play the flute and did gain some fame. A man named Jack Black, for example, once claimed to be Queen Victoria's personal rat-catcher.

　　有人會(huì)付錢給花衣魔笛手。實(shí)際上，幾世紀(jì)以來，捕鼠曾一直是一份賺錢而且普通的工作，然而這些勇敢的人并不會(huì)吹笛子，他們確實(shí)獲得了一些名聲。例如，一位名叫杰克·布萊克的男士，曾聲稱自己是維多利亞女王的私人捕鼠者。

　　Others made a killing by selling the rats they caught in gilded cages to wealthy ladies. Yet, the major risk was that getting bit or even simply handling the rats posed a huge risk of infection and disease. Would you risk the bubonic plague to save the city? I wouldn't.

　　其他人則通過將逮到的老鼠裝進(jìn)鍍金的籠子中，賣給貴婦，從而賺了一大筆錢。然而，最大的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)就是被老鼠咬，甚至要處理那些帶有嚴(yán)重的感染和疾病的老鼠。你會(huì)冒著得黑死病的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)去拯救城市嗎?我是絕對不會(huì)的。

　　2. Night soil collectors

　　2.糞便收集者

　　Probably the most gag-inducing job on this list. If you thought your job was bad, how about gathering up night soil for a living? "Night soil" is a lovely euphemism for excrement.

　　這可能是這個(gè)清單中最令人作嘔的工作。如果你認(rèn)為你的工作不好，那么這些靠著收集糞便謀生存的人呢?"夜香"是對糞便的一種委婉的說法。

　　Those tasked with collecting fecal matter went from privy to cesspit to chamber pot, aiming to get enough for crop fertilization. By the late Victorian period, the invention of the sewer system, as well as the realization that human poo is a health risk, put these Midnight Mechanics out of work.

　　這些以收集糞便為工作的人，奔走在廁所，糞坑和夜壺之間，目的就是獲得充足的農(nóng)作物肥料。在維多利亞時(shí)期的晚期，污水管道系統(tǒng)的發(fā)明，以及人們意識(shí)到人類便便的健康風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，致使這些午夜工人都失業(yè)了。

　　3. Leech collectors

　　3. 水蛭搜集者

　　Here is another fun role (not)! Leech collectors were paid to roll up their pant legs and use their flesh as bait for leeches. Once they accumulated enough leeches on their legs, the collectors would pluck off the parasites then sell them to doctors for bloodletting and other medicinal purposes.

　　下面來看另一份有趣的工作(不是的)!人們付給水蛭搜集者錢，然后要求他們卷起褲腿，用他們的血肉作為水蛭的誘餌。一旦他們在腿上收集了足夠多的水蛭，收集者就會(huì)將這些寄生蟲從腿上撕下來，然后賣給醫(yī)生用來放血，或者其他醫(yī)療用途。

　　Leech collecting was a hectic job. First, the water was cold. Second, the collectors often became ill from blood loss and infections caused by the leeches. Thirdly, by 1900, the only bloodsucking leech in Britain had been decimated by the sheer amount of harvesting done, so the job soon became moot.

　　收集水蛭是一份瘋狂的工作。首先，水很冷。第二，收集者往往會(huì)因?yàn)樗�蛭�?dǎo)致的失血和感染而生病。第三，直到1900年，英國唯一的吸血水蛭被一次大規(guī)模的收集，而瀕臨滅絕，因此這一工作也很快就沒什么意義了。

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