Terrible business. The plague of the countryside.

糟糕的勾当。农村的瘟疫。

Okay, so if you know what she's doing, then why don't you just bust her?

好吧，那如果你知道她的勾当，为什么不逮捕她？

I mean, they forget all about the years of thieving and robbing?

我是说，他忘掉这些年你做的所有盗劫勾当？

" Though if his school marks don't pick up, " said Mr. Malfoy, more coldly still, " that may indeed be all he is fit for ."

“不过要是他的成绩没有起色，”马尔福先生语气更冷地说，“他也许只能干那些勾当。”

We jumped at the offer, for we were already sick of these bloodthirsty doings, and we saw that there would be worse before it was done.

我对这个建议欣然答应，因为早已厌恶这种血腥的勾当，我明白这次杀人之后，还会有更残酷的事发生。

“Though if his grades don’t pick up, ” said Mr. Malfoy, more coldly still, “that may indeed be all he is fit for —”

“不过要是他的成绩没有起色，”马尔福先生语气更冷地说，“他也许只能干那些勾当。”

When once, through my treachery, it had been necessary to him to make a choice, the old man thought.

由于我干下了欺骗它的勾当，它不得不作出择了，老人想。

The sallow gleam in which the machine men go about their dirty business in the dead of night.

在微暗的灰黄色光线笼罩下，那些如同机械般的士兵在这黑更半夜从事着罪恶的勾当。

The government, the state, should not be in the business of hurting children.

政府和州不应该从事伤害儿童的勾当。

Not much of an underbelly going on here.

这里没什么见不得人的勾当。

Is he up to something really mendacious or awful?

他是不是在搞什么虚伪或糟糕的勾当？

He was probably doing illegal stuff with Fred.

他可能和弗雷德一起干了些违法的勾当。

Everything has been the fighting with snakes, the gouging out of eyes.

这一切不过是与蛇搏斗、挖人眼球的勾当。

And even if you're not making kids, you go and do that, that dirty deed.

甚至如果你不打算要孩子，你也去干那件事，那个肮脏的勾当。

That was the whole grave robber thing, right?

那就是盗墓的全部勾当，对吧？

And there's shifty deals and pumping dumps.

还有些是暗箱操作和拉高出货的勾当。

We pull off bank heists on the weekend.

我周末干银行抢劫的勾当。

Watch all the thieving and stealing and robbing they do.

看看他做的那些偷窃、侵占和抢劫的勾当。

Figure out how to get in on this villainous racket, says Miska.

搞清楚怎么加入这个邪恶的勾当，Miska说。

Tex replied, I'm the Devil, and I'm here to do the Devil's business.

克斯回答说：“我是魔鬼，我来这里是为了完成魔鬼的勾当。”