Two men digging a ditch, or is it a grave?

两个男在挖，抑或是墓穴？

You should dig trenches to drain away the water.

应该挖以便排水。

First they dug trenches around the fields to siphon off the water, but the soil beneath was still too wet to grow crops, so they added these underground tubes with holes in the top.

首先，他们在田地周围挖来吸走水分，但是下面土壤仍然太湿，不能种植庄稼，所以他们在上面挖了一些洞，把这些地下管道加了进去。

That's mud; we leave clay to ditchers, sir.

那是烂泥；我们还是把泥巴留给挖吧，先生。

" But why, Big Sam" ? " Lawd, Miss Scarlett! Ain' you heerd? Us is ter dig de ditches fer de wite gempmums ter hide in w'en de Yankees comes."

" 但是做什么呢，大个儿萨姆？" " 啊，思嘉小，见了吗？俺是来给白先生挖，好让他们躲避北方佬。"

The excavation process entails trenching around blocks of stone containing the fossils and digging under them, leaving temporary pedestals for support.

挖掘过程需要在含有化石石块周围挖，在其下方挖掘，留下临时基座作为支撑。

Hill then interested himself in practical ways of ditching and tiling.

希尔随后对挖和平铺实用方法产生了兴趣。

A ditcher is not master of his own destiny.

一个挖不能主宰自己命运。

For all those various reasons they`ve already cited, even as supporters continue to say, look, it`s time, after all this debate, to dig the trenches and to get this pipe into the ground.

由于他们已经列举所有这些各种原因，即使支持者继续说， 看，在所有这些辩论之后， 是时候挖将这条管道放到地下了。

Because it had to be buried  at depths of up to two metres, a jetting sledge — that's  like an underwater plough pulled along by the boat — was used to dig a  trench and bury the cable at the same time.

因为它必须被埋在最深两米地方，所以使用了喷射式雪橇——就像一个由船拉动水下犁——用来挖同时埋设电缆。

And so the sun was setting and I was, yeah, I was writing and, you know, I don't know if you've had this experience, Debbie, where you're writing and you're kind of, it feels like you are digging the ditch.

夕阳西下，我那时正在写作，知道，我不确定是否有过这样经历，黛比，就是在写作时，会觉得好像在挖一样。

In the spring, when the bogs were thawed some depth, Sivert came down from Sellanraa to Storborg, to start a bit of ditching for his brother, and lo, Andresen himself went out on the land digging too.

春天，当沼泽解冻到一定程度时，Sivert 从 Sellanraa 下来到 Storborg，开始为他兄弟挖，瞧，Andresen 自己也出去挖地了。

He went from being an integral part of his future rival Thomas Edison's company to digging ditches for $2 a day, to owning a company, and finally back to being penniless again.

他从成为未来竞争对手托马斯·爱迪生公司核心成员， 到每天挖赚两美元，再到拥有一家公司， 最后又回到了身无分文状态。

My guess is that they just, they've been doing it so long that they're like an animal that's just been, you know, digging a trench in its zoo confined cage.

我猜测是， 他们只是因为做了太长时间，就像一只被关在动物园笼子里动物， 一直在挖一样。

When the appetites of the whole were appeased, the squaws removed the trenchers and gourds, and the two parties began to prepare themselves for a subtle trial of their wits.

等到大家胃口都平了之后，女佣们就撤走了挖器和葫芦，两方开始准备来一场微妙斗智斗勇。

'Hedgers and ditchers by rights. But once in ancient times one of 'em, when he was at work, changed clothes with King Charles the Second, and saved the king's life.

'理所当然树篱和挖者。但在古代，他们中一个曾经在工作时，与查理二世国王换过衣服，救过国王一命。

And I also felt conflicted at a really young age, because I saw my father, my uncle, my grandfather, my brothers digging trenches in the land.

我在很小时候也感到很矛盾，因为我看到我父亲、叔叔、祖父和兄弟们在地里挖。

The necessary occupation of a ditcher prepares him to work in the trenches, and to fortify a camp, as well as to inclose a field.

挖工必要职业使他准备好在战壕里工作， 加固营地，以及封闭一块田地。

I love it, and it's a lot of hard work, but honestly, It's not exactly digging ditches or doing brain surgery.

我喜欢它， 虽然需要很多努力，但说实话， 这不像挖或者做脑手术那么难。

Even a ditch-digger can do that-and probably sleep more soundly and enjoy his food more than a high-powered executive.

即使是挖也能做到这一点——而且可能比有权有势高管睡得更香、吃得更香。