I was promoted from there to the washtub, she said.

“我是从那里提升到洗衣房的。

He gave them the water in Ma's washtub, which was standing full, ready for the washing next morning.

他把妈妈的洗衣盆里的水给了他们， 洗衣盆已经装满了，准备第二天早上洗衣服。

But in the wintertime Pa filled and heaped the washtub with clean snow, and on the cookstove it melted to water.

但在冬天， 爸爸用干净的雪装满并堆满了洗衣盆，在炉灶上雪化成了水。

She filled a clean washtub with cold water from the spring, and she dipped the corn out of the kettle into the tub.

她在一个干净的洗衣盆里装满冷泉水，然后把水壶里的玉米粒浸入浴缸里。

Madam Walker was very proud of what she had done. She said that she had made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for more pleasant and profitable occupations.

沃克夫人对自己所做的事情感到非常自豪。她说自己让“很多有色女性放弃洗衣工作、转向更开心更赚钱的工作”成为了可能。

But before long he came hurry- ing back, hitched the horses to the wagon, threw in his ax, the two washtubs, the wash-boiler and all the pails and wooden buckets there were.

但没过多久， 他就匆匆回来了， 把马拴在马车上，把他的斧头、两个洗衣桶、洗衣锅和所有的水桶木桶都扔了进去。

She had to go to bed early on Saturday nights, with Charlotte, because after she was bathed and put into her clean nightgown, Pa must empty the washtub and fill it with snow again for Mary's bath.

星期六晚上， 她不得不和夏洛特早早上床睡觉，因为在她洗完澡并穿上干净的睡衣后， 爸爸必须清空洗衣盆并再次装满雪， 以便给玛丽洗澡。

She looked at me with cold glittering eyes and made no answer. A few days later she began shouting. She was at the washtubs and a wave of angry shrieks came to me, as though she were driving off an assailant.

她用冰冷闪亮的眼睛看着我，没有回答。几天后，她开始大喊大叫。她在洗衣盆旁，一阵愤怒的尖叫声向我袭来，就好像她在驱赶袭击者一样。