But on three afternoons a week she had to attend sewing circles and bandage-rolling committees of Melanie's friends.
可是每星期有三个下午她必须出席由媚兰的朋友们组织的缝纫会和卷绷带委员会。
飘(原版)
She only thought the people were nice to come to see her and to want her in their little sewing circles, cotillion clubs and musical societies.
她只觉得大家对她很好,到家里来看她,让她参加她们的缝纫组、舞蹈俱乐部、音乐社团等。
飘(原版)
They all cried to her that she must join their knitting and sewing circles and their hospital committees, and no one else's, and she promised recklessly to right and left.
They organized bazaars and presided over sewing circles, they chaperoned balls and picnics, they knew who made good matches and who did not, who drank secretly, who were to have babies and when.
The Meades and McLures proudly read these letters all over the neighborhood, and Scarlett had frequently felt a secret shame that Melanie had no such letters from Ashley to read aloud at sewing circles.
The term sewing circle usually refers to a group of people, usually women, who meet regularly for the purpose of sewing, often for charitable causes while chatting gossip and politics.