打短工 meaning in English
work as a casual labourer; engage in a temporary job
Examples
- He then earned his living by doing all kinds of odd jobs .
后来，他靠打短工谋生。 - The unmarried son may leave for stretches of city work, but he is bound to return .
未婚儿子可以去城市打短工，但他一定要回来。 - A number of graduates voluntarily took up day labors during this summer vacation , instead of be engaged in traveling and craze parties as usual
与以前高考过后忙于外出旅游、热闹聚会不同，今年有不少“准大学生”主动选择了打短工。 - For myself i found that the occupation of a day - laborer was the most independent of any ， especially as it required only thirty or forty days in a year to support one
我自己是觉得，任何职业中，打短工最为独立不羁，何况一年之内只要三四十天就可以养活自己。 - They showed no recognition of her , and possibly had none , for they had been under the influence of liquor on that occasion , and were only temporary sojourners there as here
她们似乎没有认出她来，也可能真的忘了，因为这时候她们还没有摆脱酒精的影响，她们在特兰里奇和在这儿一样，都是打短工的。