Working in such a laundry was known as the eight-pound livelihood because a person had to lift an iron weighing almost four kilograms all day.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

But now I have to carry all the laundry down the street to another building to do it there,

但现在我得把所有的衣服拿到街上的另一个楼里去洗。

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and go back to change the laundry over and pick it up, and it's really a big pain. It's really awful.

然后走回去把衣服拿出来，真是太痛苦了，真的很烦人。

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You could get gasoline, your laundry cleaned, and your hair done right on the property.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

We would do the laundry whenever the clothes got dirty.

只要衣服脏了，我们就会洗衣服。

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