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

两个男人在挖沟，抑或是墓穴？

You should dig trenches to drain away the water.

你应该挖沟以便排水。

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

那是烂泥；我们还是把泥巴留给挖沟的吧，先生。

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的石块周围挖沟，在其下挖掘，留下临时基座作为支撑。

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

希尔随后对挖沟和平铺的法产生了兴趣。

A ditcher is not master of his own destiny.

一个挖沟的人不能主宰自己的命运。

The ground is still workable, and Isak goes down one day with Sivert, ditching and draining the road.

地面仍然可以使， 有一天 Isak 和 Sivert 一起下沉， 挖沟排水。

The former colleague saw such a thin Tesla digging ditches and was very surprised.

这位前同事看到这么薄的特斯拉挖沟，非常惊讶。

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

即使是挖沟的人也能做到这一点——而且可能比有权有势的高管睡得更香、吃得更香。

Once, a former colleague of Edison's company passed by the construction site and saw Tesla digging ditches.

有一次，爱迪生公司的一位前同事路过建筑工地，看到特斯拉在挖沟。

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，但说话， 这不像挖沟或者做脑手术那么难。

Even if he has become a ditch digger, he talks to everyone about his vision for the future of alternating current.

即使他已经成为一名挖沟机，他也会与大家谈论他对交流电未来的愿景。

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.

挖沟工的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。

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.

我在很小的时候也感到很矛盾，因为我看到我的父亲、叔叔、祖父和兄弟们在地里挖沟。

" 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，思嘉小姐，你听见了吗？俺是来给白人先生挖沟的，好让他们躲避北佬。"

E'en his face begetteth laughter, And he speaks truth free from slaughter; He's the grace of every feast, And sometimes the chiefest guest; Hath his trencher and his stool.

他的脸上引来了笑声，他所说的真理没有杀戮;他是每场宴会的恩典，有时是最主要的客人;有他的挖沟机和凳子。

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.

我的猜测是， 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的动物， 一直在挖沟一样。

'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.

'理所当然的树篱和挖沟者。但在古代，他们中的一个曾经在工作时，与查理二世国王换过衣服，救过国王一命。

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.

等到大家的胃口都平了之后，女佣们就撤走了挖沟器和葫芦，两开始准备来一场微妙的斗智斗勇。

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，他们在田地周围挖沟来吸走水分，但是下面的土壤仍然太湿，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。