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Another example is work, which in Portuguese is ‘Trabalho’. This comes from the Latin tripaliare, a verb made from the noun tripalium, an instrument of torture. There needs to be a way to differentiate between work and labor – one being in fact torture (as Genesis tells us) and the other a sacred calling. In English we have these two – in Portuguese, we do not. So every labor is work, every sacred calling and vocation is torture.