shirtwaist

shirtwaist

1. [17] Miss Martha leaned weakly against the showcase, one hand on her best blue-dotted silk shirtwaist as the pipe-smoking stranger gripped the shouting customer by the collar.

(17)玛莎小姐虚弱无力地倚靠在橱窗上,一只手放在她最得意的蓝点真丝背心上。这时,那个叼着烟斗的陌生人一把抓住那个大喊大叫的顾客的衣领。

2. Chinese garment factories have repeatedly experienced disasters on a par with the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City a century ago, which killed 146 workers, all young women.

中国的制衣工厂接连不断地发生工业事故,类似于一个世纪前纽约市臭名卓著的三角地大火,146位工人在这场大火中丧生,全部都是青年女工。

3. His wife asked him to purchase a shirtwaist for her while in New York.

他的太太叫他去纽约时给她买件衫裙。

4. the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist, and then, as her newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed despairingly into deep heat with a desolate cry.

坐在我旁边的一个妇女起先很斯文地让汗水渗透衬衣,后来,她的报纸在她手指下面也变潮了时,她长叹一声,在酷热中颓然地往后一倒。

5. A defining moment was the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911: 146 garment workers, most of them young immigrant women, died as an overcrowded factory burned down in Greenwich Village.

她的人生转折点在三角形服装厂1911年发生的那场大火。该工厂位于格林威治村,人满为患,大火把工厂夷为平地,也夺去了146名服装工人的生命,其中大部分是年轻的女性移民。

6. On her white shirtwaist was a pleated jabot of cheap lace, caught with a large novelty pin of imitation coral.

她的白罩衫前面缀着蕾丝做的百褶边,被一枚夸张的仿珊瑚大别针束住。

7. At her neck a blue silk shirtwaist and light lace collar were torn away where she had clutched herself

她的蓝绸子衬衫和镶了花边的衣领被撕开了,是她自己掐脖子时撕的。

8. shirtwaist style frock

束腰衬衫式外长衣

9. Miss Martha leaned weakly against the showcase, one hand on her best blue-dotted silk shirtwaist as the pipe-smoking stranger gripped the shouting customer by the collar.

玛莎小姐虚弱无力地倚靠在橱窗上,一只手放在她最得意的蓝点真丝背心上。这时,那个叼着烟斗的陌生人一把抓住那个大喊大叫的顾客的衣领。

10. Michaelis and this man reached her first, but when they had torn open her shirtwaist, still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath.

米切里斯和这个人最先赶到她身旁,但等他们把她汗湿的衬衣撕开时,他们看见她左边的乳房已经松松地耷拉着,因此也不用再去听那下面的心脏了。

11. Over the shirtwaist was a natty jacket, elbow-sleeved, and to the elbows she wore gloves of imitation suede.

罩衫外是一件整洁利落的夹克衫,袖子只到肘部,袖子下面她戴着一副仿小羊皮的手套。

12. shirtwaist style blouse

背心衬衫式上衣

13. Shirtwaist(woman's dress that buttons down the front to the waist )

衬衫式连衣裙(胸部有扣至腰部的).

14. shirtwaist dress

衬衫装

15. She wore the skirt of this with a white shirtwaist, and a sailor hat with a white veil wound around it in such fashion that it could be easily drawn over her face.

裙子上头用一件白色的系带紧身罩着,头上戴一顶水手帽子,四周镶着一圈白色的面纱,可以随时放下来蒙脸。

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