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消防队员的工作极其困难，煞费苦力。 The fire fighters had an extremely difficult and demanding job. | ||
其实，苦力买卖与黑奴买卖一样恶劣。 In fact, coolie trade was as bad as slave trade. | ||
有一个苦力从货架上抓了几盒青霉素。 A coolie grabbed a handful of penicillin from a shelf. | ||
此非限于某一社会阶层为然也，亦且见于卑微的苦力之间。 And it is not confined to one class; it exists even in the humblest coolie. | ||
对于那些苦力和他们的网络雇主来说，他们都想要更多的英语授课。 As for the coolies and their cyber-employers, both would like more lessons in English. | ||
我注意到，为了便于晚上的旅行，一个苦力头顶着一个装着煤油炉的凳子。 I observed that you had provided for the night journey a heavy kerosene burner mounted on a stool, which a poor labourer carried on his head. | ||
他们为盟军挖掘战壕，在码头和铁路站干苦力，或是在兵工厂里效命。 They dug trenches, toiled in docks and railway yards or worked in arms factories for the Allies. | ||
我们一家挤进了黄包车，苦力就拉着我们穿过乱哄哄的街道向中国饭店走去。 Our family piled into rickshas, and the coolies pulled us through cluttered streets toward the Cathay Hotel. | ||
我在做的这一特殊的苦力活就是和其他四个伙计一块挖一条主输水管。 On this particular job, I was digging a 2 water main with four other guys. | ||
他的父亲沦为苦力；他的家庭，因错过人口普查，被列为“暂住-无籍异乡人士”。 His father became a labourer; his family, having missed a census, were classed as “present-absent aliens”. | ||
