laundress

laundress

1. He put the books aside on a little table in a corner of the fire-place, and waited patiently while the laundress finished her work.

他回到起居室时,马隆尼夫人正在收拾掉他吃剩的东西。他把书放在挨近火炉一角的一张小桌子上,耐心地等待清洁女佣把她的活儿干完。

2. Women who continue to work while caring for children often find themselves in the unenviable position of being the babysitter, house cleaner, cook and laundress in addition to their full-time jobs.

在照顾小孩继续工作的女性经常发现自己谁都不愿意处于的处境中:除了全职之外,她们还是保姆、房屋清洁员、厨子和洗衣女工。

3. She was the only laundress left who knew how to do up damask

她是仅有的一位懂得如何洗净锦段的洗衣妇。

4. She affirmed that the British laundress was not a mistress of her art

她还断言,英国的洗衣妇没有掌握这一行的本领。

5. and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that has not been proved.

并且有过一个洗衣姑娘,但是那些经过是没有被证实的;

6. He hired a battery of staff to help him with the daily chores, including a scullion (dishwasher), a laundress and a shoeblack (someone who cleans shoes).

当时达尔文雇了很多人帮他打理日常事务,其中包括厨房佣人(洗碗工),洗衣女工和擦鞋匠。

7. I never ask this man for anything. I am the cheerleader, the cook, the laundress and the nurse. I wasn't asking for an elaborate event, just 30 people or so.

我从未向这个男人要求过什么。我是啦啦队的,是厨师,是房东也是护士。我并不需要精心筹备的晚会,30多个嘉宾就很好了。

8. I never ask this man for anything.I am the cheerleader, the cook, the laundress and the nurse.

我从来没有要求过他任何事,在家洗衣做饭我全包,同时还要兼任拉拉队长和护士。

9. she was a laundress who worked in the house when I was about six years old.

我大约六岁时,她在我家里做洗衣女工。

10. I am the cheerleader, the cook, the laundress and the nurse.

我是啦啦队队员,是厨师,是洗衣女工,是护士。

11. One day, at the age of eighty, he was sur-prised by a grandson in the arms of a young laundress.

有一天,80多岁的雨果吃惊地看到小孙子躺在年轻的洗衣女工怀里。

12. A man in black trousers and a striped linen jacket, which was evidently fresh from the hands of the laundress, opened the door.

有个人来开门,他穿黑裤子和条纹亚麻布茄克衫,衣服显然是新洗新烫的。

13. The masters took advantage of my age-- and then I had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river

此外,我从前还有一个女儿,她在河里洗衣服。

14. The laundress was roning the linen.

洗衣妇正在用熨斗熨亚麻布。

15. Bacon tumbled over the laundress's buckets in the passage through which he had to pass

洗衣妇的水桶挡住了培根的必经之路,使他差一点绊倒。

16. One story about the American cavalry in the Wild West tells of a Mrs Nash, company laundress in the 7th Cavalry.

美国骑兵在西大荒的一个故事,谈到第七骑兵团一位纳什太太。

17. " The door between the sitting-room and bed-room was half open, and he could see the laundress bustling about, dusting the furniture, and rearranging things that had never been disarranged.

起坐室与寝室之间的门是半开着的,他看得见清洁女佣忙忙碌碌的情况:她去掉家具上的灰尘,把从来没有弄乱的东西再整理一番。

18. The laundress looked on in astonishment, but as she had been promised twenty louis, she made no remark

那洗衣女露出惊奇的神色,但因为说好她可以拿到二十个路易,所以并不说话。

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