Twain began taking odd jobs after school to bring in extra cash.

马克·吐温在放学后开始打零工来挣钱贴补家用。

As a student, he worked odd jobs to help his family get through the tail end of the Great Depression, including delivering sandwiches in Manhattan, a far cry from his dreams of writing sci-fi novels.

在学生时期，他零工帮衬家里度过经济大萧条的尾声时期。他在曼哈顿送过三明治，这与他写科幻小说的梦想相去甚远。

According to Tencent, users can search for jobs directly through WeChat by entering keywords such as " nearby jobs, " " part-time jobs, " " daily wages, " or " odd jobs, " which trigger tailored listings based on their location.

据腾讯介绍，用户可在微信中直接输入“附近的工作”、“兼职”、“日结”或“零工”等关键词，系统将根据其位置推送定制职位信息。

There he took odd jobs in film to get a feel for the industry.

他开始在电影行业中打零工以此来在这个行业中寻求灵感。

There were often odd jobs to be got about the fish-market.

在鱼市场里也不时能够找点零活儿干。

For a year she travelled around America, singing and preaching at prayer meetings. She supported herself with odd jobs, and slept wherever she could, often in the open air. After a year of preaching, Sojourner joined the Northampton Association.

一年间，她旅行全美国，在祷告会上唱歌，传道。她打零工来养活自己，不论哪里都可以睡，经常睡在露天。一年的传道之后，Sojourner加入北安普顿协会。

There he wrote articles for the Toronto Star and worked odd jobs to support himself.

在那里，他为《多伦多星报》撰稿，还打几份零工糊口。

But I also do odd jobs so I don't spend the whole day at home.

但我也零工，这样我不会整天呆在家里。

For the next ten years, he worked odd jobs and lived in his van.

在接下来的十年里，他四处打零工，住在自己的货车里。

I hitchhiked, I took odd jobs, whatever I could do to get here.

我搭车，我打奇怪的零工，为到这来，能的我都。

You hear Dan's stories about his odd jobs.

你听到丹讲述他的一奇怪工作。

But he had personal confidence, too, that he says came from being good at the odd jobs he held — whether as a shoe shiner or a newspaper boy or a laundry assistant, he did it all.

但他对自己也很有信心，他说，这种信心来自于他所的零工——无论是擦鞋工、报童还是洗衣助理，他都得很好。

I did all I could to set Deborah at liberty to be with him; for I knew I was good for little, and that my best work in the world was to do odd jobs quietly, and set others at liberty.

我尽我所能让黛博拉有空和父亲待在一起；因为我知道我没什么用处，我在这个世界上最好的用处是安静地零碎的工作，好让其他人有空闲。

He told BBC What's New that he often had to work odd jobs and rely on the kindness of strangers to be able to afford to keep travelling.

他在接受 BBC What's New 采访时表示，他经常不得不打零工，依靠陌生人的善意来维持旅行。

So he takes odd jobs repairing the castle walls and digging for minerals to make a living, where his exceptional abilities are immediately revealed.

于是他靠修理城堡墙壁和挖掘矿物等零工维持生计，他的非凡才能立刻显露无遗。

So, after I left the marines, I just kinda traveled the world. Now I go from town to town picking up odd jobs.

我从海军退役后，算是开始环游世界。现在我游走在各城之间，临时工。

Pumwani has a population of about thirty thousand people. Unemployment here is high with most youth doing odd jobs to earn a living.

普姆瓦尼有着大3万人口，这里的失业率很高，大多数年轻人打零工来维持生存。

He also performed odd jobs and hawked The Jewish Daily Forward, a newspaper, in Brighton Beach.

他也打一零工，还在布莱顿海滩兜售过《犹太前进日报》。

He picked up odd jobs here and there; a friend in England sent some money; a church offered moral support.

他四处打零工；一位英国朋友寄来一钱；一座教堂提供道义上的支持。

If critiquing people's proficiency seems an odd job for a pup, it may not be all that far fetched.

如果说狗狗评判人类能力这件事似乎很奇怪，但这可能并不那么牵强。