Cleaning house can also mean to wipe out corruption or inefficiency.

清理门户也可以指肃清腐败或效率低下的行为。

First, let's talk about cleaning house.

首先，让我们来谈谈打扫房间。

That is often called housekeeping or cleaning house.

那通常被称为料理家务或打扫房间。

Spent the last two days compulsively cleaning our entire house.

花了两天时间仔仔细细把我家大扫除了一遍。

She's cleaning the house and putting things away.

她在打扫房间，整理事物。

Did you do some house cleaning when you were young?

你小时候打扫卫生吗？

When talking about cleaning the house, there is another related question.

就打扫房屋来说，还有一个相关问题。

My mother's cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck.

妈妈在清扫房间，将坏运气扫尽。

Can we stop cleaning the house and make some food? I'm hungry.

我们能不能停止打扫房间，做些食物吃？我饿了。

His mother supported herself and her son by cleaning other people's houses.

他的母亲靠打扫别人的房子来养活自己和儿子。

He easily won the Governorship and immediately set about cleaning house at Sacramento.

他轻而易举地赢得了州长竞选，然后迅速开始清理位于萨克拉门托的政府大楼。

She's been as busy as a beaver cleaning the house all day.

她整天忙着打扫房子。

Think back to the sentence you heard earlier: " I am cleaning my house."

回想一下你之前听到的那句话：“我正在打扫我的房子。”

We use this water for drinking, washing clothes, cleaning houses and utensils.The water is clean.

我们直接饮用自来水，用它洗衣服、打扫房间及进行清洁。水很干净。

You know how bored I was today? I came this close to actually cleaning the house.

你知道今天我有多无聊吗？我无聊到差点自己打扫房子了。

Sometimes that involves simply cleaning your house and getting rid of things you do not need.

有时就只是简单地打扫一下你的房子，扔掉你不需要的东西。

In time, Eunice's mother went to work cleaning house for a white woman in the town.

不久，尤尼斯的母亲开始为镇上的一位白人妇女打扫房子。

Oh hello, hi. Me and Maggie are cleaning the house today. We're starting with the windows.

哦你们好，嗨。我和麦琪正在打扫房间，我们先来擦玻璃。

I'm cleaning up the house after he goes to bed and oops, I knock over the tower.

等他睡觉后我就开始打扫卫生可是一不小心，我把塔给撞翻了。

So you might say you were " as busy as a bee" if you spent your weekend cleaning your house.

所以，如果你周末要打扫房间，你可以说自己as busy as a bee(忙忙碌碌的)。