" 'The last thing to mend, '" Harry repeated.

“什么东西总是缝缝补补，”哈利重复道。

I don't like to sew with thread that tangles easily.

我不喜欢用缝补，它容易缠结。

His shoes were worn-out, and they needed to be sewed.

鞋已经很破旧了，需要缝补。

Mrs. Stroeve sewed, and I thought I recognised the shirt she was mending as Strickland's.

施特略夫太太在缝补什么；她缝东西我是认得，那是思特里克兰德一件衬衣。

While he darned the stocking his face became rigid with thought.

他缝补着袜子，陷入沉思，整张脸变得毫无表情。

So instead of sewing in the home to repair your family's worn-out items or threadbare stockings, perhaps a middle-class woman can now take time to do things like complicated needlework, which is pretty but not always attached to a practical use.

因此，也许一个中产阶级妇女现在可以做一些复针活，而不是在家缝补家里破旧物品或破袜子，这些针活很漂亮，但并不总是有实际用途。

She's just a housemaid that fastens hooks and buttons when she has to.

就是个打。便使唤，缝缝补补罢了。

When you mend something, you're usually sewing it and it does take time as well.

当你修补某物，通常是在缝补它，这确实也需要。

She smoked and drank, neglected the children, and left the clothes unmended.

【neglect】她抽烟喝酒，既不照顾孩子，也不缝补衣服。

She was attracted to every type of sport, but she chafed under the societal stereotypes of the day, which limited girls to reading, sewing, and cooking.

她被各种运动所吸引，但她对当社会刻板印象感到恼火，这些刻板印象认为，女孩只应该在学校好好读书、在家缝缝补补和洗衣做饭。

And whenever she found Carreen on her knees when she should have been taking an afternoon nap or doing the mending, she felt that Carreen was shirking her share of the burdens.

因此，每当她发现卡琳本来应当午睡或缝补衣服却跪在那里祈祷，便认为她是规避自己责任了。

The five Bennet sisters, including " three of the silliest girls in England" , spend much of their time sitting at home, reading, sewing and driving each other nuts—much like families in lockdown.

班内特家五姐妹，包括“英格兰最傻三个女孩”，大部分都待在家里，读书、缝补，把对方逼疯——就像现在被迫隔离在家人们一样。

Then patchwork or towels appeared, and Amy sewed with outward meekness and inward rebellion till dusk, when she was allowed to amuse herself as she liked till teatime.

接着便是缝缝补补，艾米外表顺从，内心不满地直缝到黄昏，然后获准按她喜欢玩到吃茶候。

She still knitted stockings and mended garments, peeled potatoes for the stew and sliced apples for drying, but somehow she wasn't happy.

她仍然织袜子，缝补衣服，削土豆皮炖菜，切苹果片晾干，但不知怎么，她不高兴了。

I offered to do any kind of work, teaching, sewing, cleaning, so that I could become independent again.

我提出什么事我都愿做，教书、缝补、清洗，只要能再次独立。

This was a very solitary job, and she was hidden in a backroom working long hours mending and assembling garments.

这是一项非常孤独工作，她要在一后屋里长地缝补、缝制衣服。

Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and end of the end?

再告诉我什么东西总是缝缝补补，中中，尾部尾部？

The fingers brought the needle to the cook's shoes.

手指带着针缝补厨师鞋子。

Half resolving never to return, she went home, and worked off her irritation by stitching pinafores vigorously, and in an hour or two was cool enough to laugh over the scene and long for next week.

她几乎决定再也不来了，便回到家中，把她恼怒发泄在狠狠地缝补围裙上，过了一两个小，她相当冷静了，能为刚刚那一幕感到好笑，并且开始期待下星期到来。

She'll wear herself out nursing and sewing.

她整天护理伤员，缝缝补补，会把自己累垮。