Cows needed to be milked, shoes needed cobbling, fields needed plowing.
要挤奶,要修鞋,要犁地。
白鲸记
It's the old woman's tricks to be giving cobbling jobs.
让人干修修补补的活儿,那是老太婆的骗局。
世界奇趣图谱
Work detail was split into laundry, tailoring, cobbling, modeling, gardening, and other labor details.
工作细节分为洗衣、 裁缝、 补鞋、 造型、园艺和其他劳动细节。
托尔斯泰传
" It can only sadden me that such intellectual energies should spend themselves in chopping wood, heating the samovar, and cobbling boots" .
“让我感到难过的是,这样的智力能量竟然花在砍柴、烧茶炊和补鞋上”。
2022诺贝尔得主访谈录
And all of these had to build everything from scratch, so… AS: I gather your… JC: … there was very little money and so I was basically cobbling together old junk or scrap from the UC Physics department.
Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand. Traditional handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes produced by industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship.