His father was the chairman of a sewing-machine company, an important post for this garment-exporting nation.

他的父亲是一家缝纫机公司的董事长，在服装出口为支柱产业的斯里兰卡，这是一个重要职位。

She sewed the dresses on the sewing machine.

她在缝纫机上缝制了这些衣服。

Campbell made his first teddy bear with his mother's sewing machine in his bedroom.

坎贝尔在卧室里用他妈妈的缝纫机做了他的第一个玩具熊。

She ran up a skirt on her sewing machine.

她用缝纫机快速地缝制了一条裙子。

"I rented a [sewing machine] and lined 10 coffins," recalls Megan Duckett.

梅甘回忆说，“我租了一台缝纫机，缝出了10个棺材。”

I used to hate sewing before we got a sewing machine.

在我们买来缝纫机之前我最恨做针线活。

The crew unscrewed the screws from the sewing - machine and chewed them.

船员们从缝纫机上旋下螺钉并咀嚼它们。

So when she broke the machine, she started making calls to sewing machine repair shops.

所以在她把它弄坏时，她开始打缝纫机修理店的电话。

As if to prove her point, Wirasinghe brings out the rusted shell of an electric sewing machine.

蚀了的电动缝纫机外壳，就好像要证明她话中的含义似的。

A sewing machine occupies an important place in a corner - a sign that life is getting back to normal.

一台缝纫机占据了墙角一处明显的位置—说明生活正在恢复正常。

To her, that sewing machine is a part of her and part of the home as a fixture.

对她来说，那台缝纫机是它的一部分，也是我们家的部分装饰物。

Instead of fixing an old sewing machine or camera, we immediately toss it and upgrade.

我们马上丢弃旧的缝纫机或照相机，或者将他们或者升级换代，而不是修理他们。

In the hierarchy of jobs in poor countries, sweltering at a sewing machine isn't the bottom.

在贫穷国家的工作等级中，在缝纫机下埋头流汗不是最底层的。

At one of those factories in an industrial suburb of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, a worker uses a sewing machine to stitch together black padding for an orthopedic foot brace.

在华南城市广州郊区某工业园区的一家工厂，一位工作正用缝纫机把黑色填充物缝进一只骨科脚撑中。

He keeps asking for his mother's sewing machine.

他不断寻找他母亲的缝纫机。

“What I love most, ” she says, “is seeing someone come in who is reluctant to use a sewing machine, and then a couple of weeks later you see them showing other people how to use it.”

很多刚刚进来不愿意使用缝纫机，几周后，你会看到他向其他人介绍如何使用缝纫机，每当看到这样的情景，我都非常感动。

Li, parked on her stool in front of the sewing machine, dreams of a future in which she owns a home in the city and has a stable job working only eight hours a day.

李，把工具放在了缝纫机前面，梦想着将来某一天在城市里有自己的家并且有着一份每天工作8小时的稳定工作。

Pauline Cuoio Pepe was a nineteen-year-old sewing machine operator and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

波林·佩佩（Pauline Cuoio Pepe），十九岁，是三角内衣厂的缝纫机工。

But the Osborne One was about the size of a sewing machine and weighed twenty-four pounds.

但这台奥斯本便携式计算机大约有一台缝纫机大小，重约24磅。

My mom recently broke the part on her old Pfaff sewing machine.

我母亲近来弄坏了她那台旧普法夫(Pfaff)缝纫机。

So Karen sat down at her sewing machine and made a device that tightened around a baby bottle or sipping cup with Velcro, attached to a tether that could be looped around a seat belt.

所以Karen用缝纫机做了一个装置，放置在奶瓶或者有纽扣的喝水杯子上，然后用一条绳子缝住，固定到安全带上。

Skinny jeans, Christmas decorations, old wrapping paper, the fondue pot, that old sewing machine you think you can fix "when you have the time".

低劣牛仔裤，圣诞装饰品，老旧的包装纸，奶酪火锅炉，还有那些你认为“如果你有时间”就能修复的陈旧的锁线装订机。

Li sports short black shorts over black tights, working the pedal of her sewing machine with high-heeled boots trimmed with faux fur.

李炫耀着她的黑色短裤黑色短紧身衣，工作时穿着人造毛皮的高跟靴子。