零碎活儿 meaning in English
odd jobs
Examples
- Weeks counted up to months, and still he searched on, maintaining himself by small jobs of work in the intervals .
几个星期过去了，几个月过去了，他仍然在寻觅，这其间他干些零碎活儿维持生活。 - The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them .
村里的女人也常常差遣他为她们跑腿，或者叫他做些自己不大听话的丈夫不愿意干的零碎活儿。 - Saturday morning it was " fancy starch , " and odds and ends , and at three in the afternoon the week s work was done
星期六又是“花式浆洗”和许多零碎活儿，到下午三点，一同的活儿才终于干完。