He knows what the patrons want even before they know it themselves and there's nothing, I mean nothing, he can't turn his hand to.

他总是能比人们先一步知道他们自己喜欢什么，而且没有什么事情是他做不来的。

When he was able to totter about the house, he turned his hands to weaving baskets of split oak and mending the furniture ruined by the Yankees.

待到他能够在屋里到处走动了，他便着手编制橡树皮篮子，修补被北方佬损坏的家具。