His mother wouldn 't have him romancing a scrubbing girl .
他母亲不会让他跟一个擦地板的姑娘谈情说爱。
All day long I had been very busy ; picking up trash , cleaning bathrooms and scrubbing floors .
我整天都很忙,收拾垃圾,清洗卫生间,擦地板。
Instead she kept scrubbing floors and believing that , if she continued to wish very hard and take absolutely no action , everything would fall into place .
她不停地擦着地板,并坚信:只要她继续努力祈祷、什么也不做,所有事情都会好起来。
She went inside and crashed around the house , effecting a transformation : washing dishes , scrubbing the stove and the kitchen floor , throwing the windows wide open , emptying ashtrays with a clang of the dustbin lid .