Kitty's mother had brought to London from her native Liverpool a practical sense of housewifery and Kitty, notwithstanding her air of frivolity, had always had certain gifts to which she referred only in bantering tones.

基蒂的母亲从她的家乡利物浦把一种实用的家庭主妇意识带到了伦敦，尽管基蒂轻浮，但她总有某些天赋， 她只的时候提到过。

Yet here was no fault of housewifery; the curse could not be lifted, as the ingrained smudges permanent on the once white woodwork proved.

然而，这并不家庭主妇的错； 诅咒无法解除， 曾经白色的木制品上根深蒂固的污迹证明了这一点。

When the schoolmaster got back Sue was making a pretence of doing some housewifery as if she lived there.

校长回来时， 苏假装做家务， 就好像她住那儿似的。