A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
做家务
Housework
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
我把很多熨衣服的活儿都埋在后院里了。
I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
我是一个家庭主妇:我花在家务上的时间比花在其他任何事情上的时间都多。
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
我的厨艺太差了，我的孩子们以为感恩节是为了纪念珍珠港。
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
我看着妈妈把生命浪费在家务上，发誓我永远不会那样做。戴夫做饭。
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
根本没有必要做任何家务。头四年过去了，情况并没有变得更糟。
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
我的父母是自由派知识分子，但他们甚至希望我呆在家里照顾弟弟妹妹，做家务。
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
家务劳动是唯一一项男人可以一直不称职的活动，因为人们认为他们在其他方面都很能干。
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
如果你是一名作家，你会把自己置身于一堵沉默的墙后，无论你在做什么，开车、散步还是做家务，你都可以写作，因为你有这样的空间。