A sewing machine occupies an important place in a corner - a sign that life is getting back to normal.

一台缝纫机占据了墙角一处明显的位置—说明生活正在恢复正常。

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I was off to go back to work one evening and my two children were busy sewing things on the sewing machine.

一天晚上，当我离开家准备去公司工作时，发现我的两个孩子正忙着在缝纫机上缝着什么。

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So when she broke the machine, she started making calls to sewing machine repair shops.

所以在她把它弄坏时，她开始打缝纫机修理店的电话。

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But the Osborne One was about the size of a sewing machine and weighed twenty-four pounds.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

In the early years of communist rule in China, a sewing machine was one of the so-called big items that indicated a high living standard.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

You may or may not give a hoot about clothes, but it's hard not to celebrate the values of monumental, nose-to-the-sewing-machine hard work that stand behind the flamboyance.

FORBES: Editor's Note

With two piston-like windows on its eastern flank, this building looks a lot like a giant garment worker's sewing machine -- an appropriate image for a company such as Wacoal.

CNN: AFTER THE BANG

The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S.--sewing machine operators, engine assemblers, machine tool setters, home appliance repairers and textile knitting machine operators.

FORBES: America's Top 20 Growing And Disappearing Jobs