an arab navvy working on the path nearby lowered his heavy hoe and sidled slowly towards us.
一个正在附近小道上干活的阿拉伯挖土工放下笨重的锄头,羞怯地侧着身子慢慢朝我们走过来。
seeing a man, a navvy or something of the kind, standing on the kerb in the waterloo road.
「我看见有个海军模样的人站在滑铁卢路的人行道上」。
if it were, we should have to consider every navvy superior to shakespeare.
否则,我们就得说随便一个不熟练工人都比莎士比亚高明。
he felt weak and sore, and the pain of his smashed knuckles warned him that, even if he could find a job at navvy work, it would be a week before he could grip a pick handle or a shovel.