Mostly this involves sitting outside waterside pubs watching narrowboats go by, occasionally helping (whether invited to or not) with lock-opening activities and the like.

多半时候，他要坐在水畔小酒馆的外面观察着运河小船的来来往往，偶尔为开锁之类的事情搭一把手（被请的或是不请自到的）。

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"If all such activities go underground, they would be more difficult to control," Lee says, potentially opening a greater market for trafficking.

Lee指出，如果所有活动都转入地下的话，监管会更加困难，而且还可能会滋生一个更大的人口贩卖市场。

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The daily operations of today's businesses rely heavily on forms for data collection, including such activities as account opening, claims, requests for service, and even tax filing.

当今企业的日常运营在收集数据时严重依赖表格，包括设立账户、索赔、服务请求甚至纳税申请等活动都是如此。

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Opening these activities to competition seems not to work very well.

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Longtime critics of the OCC, which oversees national banks, say the U.S. agency has responded too slowly to risky activities, opening the door to some of the reckless behavior that triggered the financial crisis.

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"Crimes like selling small amounts of drugs do not just cancel the future of our young people, but lead to social decline in communities, opening the door to illicit activities, " Mr Calderon said in a televised address.

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