活计的英文：
labo(u)r

A woman's work is never at an end
妇女的活计做不完

A woman's work is never at an end.
妇女的活计做不完。

She took her work(eg papers or sewing materials)with her into the garden.
她把活计带到了园子里(如图纸或缝纫材料).

Did she do things like bottling fruit or making jam?
她干过将水果装瓶或做果酱之类的活计吗？

Mrs Reed's hand still lay on her work inactive; her eyes of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine.
里德太太的手还一动不动地搁在她的活计上；她那冰冷的眼睛还冷冷地盯着我。

For tall, burly Pat Benedict, 44, the day begins as early as it did for farmers in mesopotamia in 8000 B.C.
跟公元前8.000年美索不达米亚的农夫一样，现年40、身体高大结实的帕特·尼迪克特一大清早就开始了一天的活计。