脏活

This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a Flourishing State in A Forest, it was full of Sap, ful l of Leaves, and full of Boughs; but now, in vain does the busie Art of Man pret end to Vye with Nature, by tying that wither'd Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Tr unk;'tis now at best but the Reverse of what was, a Tree turn'd upside down, th e Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air;'tis now handled by every Dirt y Wench, condemn'd to do her Drudgery, and by a Capricious kind of Fate, destin' d to make other Things Clean, and be Nasty it self: At Length, worn to the Stumps in the Service of the Maids,'tis either thrown out of Doors, or condemn'd to its last use of kindling Fires.

请看看这根扫帚把，它现在灰溜溜地躺在偏僻的角落，而以前我曾在树林里碰见过它，那时它风华正茂，汁液充沛，枝叶繁盛。如今它完全变了样，却还有人自作聪明，想靠人类的手工同大自然竞争，拿来一束枯枝捆在它那早已干瘪的身上，结果是枉费心机，不过颠倒了它原来的位置，使它枝干朝地，根梢朝天，成为一株头朝下的树，然后落在干脏活累活的女仆们的手里使用。从此它受命运的摆布，把别人打扫干净，而自己却变得又脏又臭，在女仆们手里折腾多次之后，最后被扔出门外，或者作为引火的柴禾被投进火里。

You could send your minion to do your dirty work, or you could go do it yourself.

你可以差遣佣人去做脏活累活，也可以自己去做。

Can McGrady, entering his 11th NBA season, at long last live up to his nonpareil reputation and deliver a blue-collar, crunch-time effort in the post-season?

麦迪即将进入第11个赛季，他能在季后赛的关键时刻咬紧牙关，像那些专干脏活的蓝领队员杀出一条血路，以对得上无上名气吗？

He cleaned his stiletto on Parkin's trousers, and wiped the ocular liquid from his hands.

他在帕金的裤子上揩净短剑，擦去手上的血迹，这是一种脏活。

He cleaned his stiletto on parkin's trousers, and wiped the ocular liquid from his h and s.

他在帕金的裤子上揩净短剑，擦去手上的血迹，这是一种脏活。

Father said not to mind him, he said that he could just as well stay home , and that he was sure that he could put in the time woking in the garden; he said that there was a lot of rough dirty work that he could do, like digging a trench for the garbage, that would save hiring a man, and so he said that he'd stay home; he said that we were not to let the fact of his not having had a real holiday for three years stand in our way; he wanted us to go right ahead and be happy and have a big day, and not to mind him.he said that he could plug away all day, and in fact he said he'd been a fool to think there'd be any holiday for him.

父亲叫我们不必管他，他说他留在家里也不错，而且他相信他能利用这段时间在花园里干点活；他说那里有一大堆他可以干的粗活和脏活，比如挖个垃圾坑什么的，这就免得雇人来干了，所以他愿意留在家里；他说我们也用不着顾虑他三年来一直没有过过一个真正的假日这回事；他要我们马上出发，快快活活地过这个节，不要为他操心。他说他能够整天埋头干活，而且，真的，他还说，本来，他有过个什么节这种想法就是想入非非。

I've noticed that Sam always dodges the column when the nasty jobs come round.

我已注意到，要干脏活时萨姆总是逃避。

They are a bunch of mercenaries hired to do the dirty work the Army will not do.

他们是一帮雇佣军，受人雇佣来干军队不愿干的脏活的。

In an earlier article I wrote about the ivory tower bias of Chinese higher education, with the assumption that a university education means you never have to get your hands dirty. This has led to automotive engineers who have never driven a car and coal mine engineers who have never been in a mine (see BusinessWeek.com, 7/31/06,"Chindia's Workforce Worries").

以前我曾写过文章批评中国高等教育体系中存在的象牙塔式思维，这种思维认为拿到大学文凭就不用再干脏活累活了，结果出现的现象是自动化工程师不会开车，煤矿工程师从没下过煤矿（见BusinessWeek.com， 7/31/06，&Chindia's Workforce Worries&）。

So she stayed there and washed the pots and scraped the saucepans and did all the dirty work.

她留了下来，洗那些罐子，搽那些炖锅，包揽了所有的脏活。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。