Rather, each person is expected to perform a great variety of tasks, though duties may differ between the sexes.

每个人都要做各类活计，尽管男女两性工不同。

The undertaker had just finished work for the day when Mr Bumble entered his shop.

班布尔先生走进铺子时，棺材店老板刚忙完一天的活计。

The next day, Joe Green came to learn all he could before James left.

第二天，乔·格林来。他得赶在詹姆斯走之前学会干所有的活计。

His brown, hardening body lived naturally through the half fierce, half lazy work of the bracing days.

在那些风吹日晒的日子里，干着时松时紧的活计，他有着晒得黝黑。越来越硬棒的身体，过着大然的生活。

Black's done a very good job on them.”

布莱克在他们身上可是干一件好活计。”

She stopped her work and got up as soon as the children came in.

孩子们一进来它就放下活计站起来。

Ben Gunn got a thousand pounds which he spent or lost in three weeks, then he came begging and was given a job as a gatekeeper.

本·得1000英镑但不三个星期就花，一名乞丐，后来找一个看门人的活计。

When Ali and his father go uptown to find gardening work, Ali's father is so intimated by the wealth and status of their potential employers… that he fails to get a foot in the door.

当阿里和父亲镇上去找园工的活计时，父亲由于受潜在客户的财富和地位的震慑… … 以至于他没敢迈出第一步跑。

One morning, about this time Charles Musgrove and Captain Wentworth being gone a-shooting together, as the sisters in the Cottage were sitting quietly at work, they were visited at the window by the sisters from the Mansion-house.

大约就在这段时间的一天早上，查尔斯·默斯格罗夫和温特沃思舰长一道打猎去，乡舍的姊妹俩正坐在那里不声不响地做活计，大宅的两位小姐来她们的窗口。

She ate two helpings of the cereal without any coaxing, because she was interested in it. She had achieved a feeling of importance; she had found in making the cereal an avenue of self-expression.

不用哄骗，孩子便吃下两份麦片。缘由是：她对煮麦片这一活计饶有兴致， 她找自我表现的方式，她得一种被尊重的感觉。

She looked up from her knitting and, with her fingers still moving the needles, she said, Old people have their secrets, just as young people do.

老人从活计上抬起头，手指不停地忙着，“老年人也有他们的想法，跟你们年轻人一样。”她说道。

The other members of the Ladies' Sewing Circle for the Widows and Orphans of the Confederacy eagerly laid down their needles and edged their rocking chairs closer.

联盟赈济孤寡缝纫会的其他面员一听这话，都连忙放下手中的活计，拉拉摇椅，凑得更近。

The fowls of heaven, tamed by the cruel season, crowd around the winnowing store, and claim the little boon which Providence assigns them.

天寒地冻，繁重活计下煎熬；群鸟麇集，黑压压蜂拥飞来，粮仓屋前，饥饿难耐地寻找， 麸皮翻飞，悲悯众生的回报。

Frightened, she ran upstairs and found her father, pale and silent, busy at his old prison work of making shoes.

路茜吓坏，她跑上楼去见父亲，脸色苍白，正在悄无声息地忙着做在监狱里干的老活计——做鞋子。

It is next to a small wooden house in Mukono near Kampala. He is proud of his work.

附近是坎帕拉市附近的穆科诺的一个小木屋，他很为自己的活计感骄傲。

He buckled down with a will and did his best, though it was all new and strange.

他咬着牙拼命地干着, 尽管这活计十不熟悉。

There were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders.

那一双强劲的肩膀，常常象是承担庄园里所有的活计。

And perhaps you would just kindly bring your work across and drink tea with us that night.

或许你可以在那天晚上带着你的活计过来，和我们一起喝杯茶。

When at last he came, he hurried through the burial prayers, and as quickly as possible (it was only a job, after all) the coffin was put into the ground.

牧师终于来，他匆忙地主持葬礼的祈祷仪式（毕竟这只是一种活计）。棺材尽可能快地放进墓穴。

Mrs. Elsing was on her feet cramming her sewing into her box, her mouth set.

埃尔辛太太站起来，顺手把活计塞筐里，嘴唇紧闭，显出很坚决的样子。