" Leopoldine and I can do the haymaking, " said Inger.

“Leopoldine 和我可以收割干草， ” Inger 说。

'But have you considered the distraction of mind produced by all this haymaking'?

“但是你有没有考虑过所有这些干草堆造成的思想分心”？

He was out haymaking in one of the meadows.

他正在草地上干草。

Now, in the haymaking season, he had tried his hand with the scythe—but he was no master hand at that, no.

现在，在收割干草的季节， 他试过用镰刀动手——但他不是这方面的高手， 不。

The mowing-machine was useful now; and a good thing, too, to have three active women that could take a turn at the haymaking.

割草机现在派上用场了。还有一件好事，同样，有三个活跃的女性可以轮流干草。

'If it were summer, ' said Higgins, 'I'd take to Paddy's work, and go as a navvy, or haymaking, or summut, and ne'er see Milton again.

希金斯说，“我会去做帕迪的工作， 去当一名水手， 或者干草，或者去苏默特， 再也见不到米尔顿了。

She welcomed us and said, smiling: " So you are come up from the water to see the Obstinate Refusers: where are you going haymaking, neighbours" ?

她欢迎我们并微笑着说：“所以你们从水里上来是为了看那些顽固的拒绝者：你们要去哪里干草，邻居们”？

" Yes, " said Dick, " and I am rather surprised at this time of the year; why are they not haymaking with you" ?

“是的，”迪克说，“一年中的这个时候我很惊讶；他们为什么不和你一起干草”？

The Baron had been told that the haymaking was to be followed by the wedding, and had he gone down the vale to the dairy he would have had evidence to that effect.

男爵被告知收割干草之后就是婚礼，如果他下河谷去奶牛场，他就会有这方面的证据。

Where were Isak and his son? They had not been idle; no, they had stolen a day and a night or thereabouts from the haymaking, and had built a boat up on the lake.

Isak 和他的儿子在哪里？他们并没有闲着；不，他们从收割干草的工作中偷走了大约一天一夜的时间，并在湖上造了一条船。