Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake, but as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
对我父亲来说，体力劳动不仅是为了它本身的好处和体面，而且就像他惯于说的那样，它能理清一个人的思路。
对我父亲来说，体力劳动不仅是为了它本身的好处和体面，而且就像他惯于说的那样，它能理清一个人的思路。