You can wipe a table with a cloth.

你可以用布擦桌子。

Expect regular table-wiping and digital ordering to replace germy paper menus.

希望定期擦桌子，以及用数字点单来代替菌的纸质菜单。

Here's an example: Let's say you're dating a girl who's a germaphobe, and she's wiping down the table with one of those tablewipes before eating.

你在跟一个有洁癖的女孩约会，她在饭前用擦桌布擦桌子。

The waitress wiped the table with a damp cloth.

这位服务员用湿抹布擦桌子。

Taking it in her hands, she dusted the table.

她一把抓住它，用它擦了擦桌子。

When the waitress came back, she began to cry as she wiped down the table.

女服务员返回来擦桌子，她流下了眼泪。

Then while you are at school or work, the breakfast dishes are magically cleaned, the tables wiped and the dishes all put in their place.

我们上班上学，早餐盘子神奇般变干净了，桌子擦过了，盘子放回了原位。

Here, my dear, said she; dust the table for dinner, and then you may set off for St. Petersburg at your ease.

“来，亲爱的，”她说；“擦好桌子，准备吃晚饭，吃饱了你才能轻松上路，去圣彼得堡。”

Then he took his napkin, wiped his beak, and pushed the table out of the way. He felt much better.

然后他叼起他的餐巾，擦了擦嘴，把桌子推到了边上。他感觉好了。

" I guess they will" . Nick sighed. George reached for a towel and began wiping one of the tables.

" 我想他们会的。" 尼克叹了口气。乔治伸手去拿毛巾，开始擦桌子。

Negroes, as we were called then, were not allowed in the town library, except to mop floors or dust tables.

我们这些黑人（人们叫我们“黑鬼”）是不准进市图书馆的，除非是去擦桌子、拖。

Elenita, witch woman, wipes the table with a rag because Ernie who is feeding the baby spilled Kool-Aid.

伊伦妮塔，算命的女人，用抹布擦桌子，因为喂宝宝的埃妮把酷爱汁洒了。

Then I'll dust.I did that, too.

我去擦桌子，我都擦完了。

Maybe it was bussing tables, bagging groceries, or working as a lifeguard.

也许是在擦桌子，打包杂货，或者做救生员。

Apparently it is nearly impossible to get hired at Ellen's without knowing someone and due to the nature of show business you could be starring in a Tony award-winning production one day and bussing tables the next.

看来如果没有熟人介绍，几乎不可能在艾伦星尘餐厅找到工作。由于演艺界的性质，你可能有一天在出演托尼奖获奖作品，第二天就得去擦桌子了。

I remember in my home after dinner, me and my sister would clean up and we had a little rotor of who washed up that day and who cleaned the table that day.

我记得在家吃完晚饭后，我和妹妹会一起收拾，我们有个小转盘，决定当天谁负责洗碗，谁负责擦桌子，每天轮流。

My friend said, you know, you really need to make sure you have a clean surface to put baby's food on because you never know what they're wiping these tables down with.

我朋友说，你知道吗，你真的需要确保放宝宝食物的方是干净的，因为你永远不知道他们用什么来擦这些桌子。

Now, we wipe tables, and we wipe walls to clean them. Right? So when something's not serious, you can wipe it. It will go away easily. Right? Unlike my last girlfriend.

现在，我们擦桌子， 我们擦墙壁来清洁它们。 正确的？ 所以当事情不严重的，你可以擦掉它。 它会容易消失。 正确的？ 不像我上一个女朋友。

Baucis used a chip of broken clay to balance the wobbly table's legs and rubbed its surface with mint until it smelled sweet and fresh.

鲍西斯用一块碎粘土来平衡摇摇晃晃的桌子腿，并用薄荷擦桌子表面，直到它闻起来甜美清新。

You have to wash dishes and those do pile up if you do anything ambitious, like you have to clean surfaces, you have to sweep.

你得洗碗，如果你做了些有挑战性的事情， 碗碟就会堆起来。你还得擦桌子， 得扫。