i had a summer job when i was a college kid, as a house painter and jack-of-all-trades at a fishing resort owned by my uncle tom in the northern midwestern state of wisconsin.
念大学的时候,我曾到我叔叔汤姆在威斯康辛州北部的钓鱼度假村打暑期工。我在那里给房子刷漆和做杂活儿。
that jack-of-all-trades knows a lot about the arms trade, the banking trade, the hotel trade and the tourist trade.
那个万能博士知道很多关于军火生意,银行业,酒店业和旅游业的事情。
「you have to be a jack-of-all-trades up here, 」 a local later told me. 「got to do some carpentry, fishing, digging for clams and picking blueberries to make ends meet.」