His father was the chairman of a sewing-machine company, an important post for this garment-exporting nation.

他的父亲是一家缝纫机公司的董事长，在服装出口为支柱产业的斯里兰卡，这是一个重要职位。

She sewed the dresses on the sewing machine.

她在缝纫机上缝制了这些衣服。

She ran up a skirt on her sewing machine.

她用缝纫机快速地缝制了一条裙子。

"I rented a [sewing machine] and lined 10 coffins," recalls Megan Duckett.

梅甘回忆说，“我租了一台缝纫机，缝出了10个棺材。”

I used to hate sewing before we got a sewing machine.

在我们买来缝纫机之前我最恨做针线活。