navvies

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1. In the Chinese restaurant, where these navvies meet to have supper in the evening, I found them drinking tea out of china cups as delicate as the petals of a rose-leaf, whereas at the gaudy hotels I was supplied with a delf cup an inch and a half thick.
    在中国餐馆里，这些劳工们晚上聚在一起吃饭，我发现他们端起如玫瑰花瓣一样纤巧的瓷杯喝茶。然而在俗丽的宾馆里，我使用的却是只有一英寸半厚的陶杯。

2. But you do not suppose that I was going to waste my time on some vulgar debauchery fit only for navvies?
    可是你们没以为我会把时间浪费到哪个只配让苦力去放荡的破地方吧？

3. I merely spent 2 months for the universty enterance examination, it reminded me that i am just like the navvies who combined the tenor of the project from 6 years toonly 1 year, but i from 3 years to 2 months.
    我花了两个月的时间来准备高考。那时我忽然想起那些把6年工期压成1年的桂河大桥的劳工们，我也如他们一样，把3年的工期压成了两个月。

navvies的近义词

4. Crates lined up on the quayside at Jaffa, chap ticking them off in a book, navvies handling them in soiled dungarees
    雅法的码头上摆了一溜儿柳条篓，一个小伙子正往本子上登记。身穿肮脏的粗布工作服、打赤脚的壮工们在搬运它们。