On one such day the washwoman, now nearly eighty years old, came to our house.

就在那么冷的一天里，那位快八十岁的洗衣妇来到了我们的住处。

It was a point of honour with the washwoman to return the wash to its rightful owner.

对那个洗衣妇来说把所洗的衣物归还给原主是个信誉问题。

But this washwoman, small and thin as she was, possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant ancestors.

可是这位洗衣妇，尽管个子又瘦又小，却具有从她们世代农民祖先那里继承来的强健体魄。

My mother had never been so pleASed with any wAShwoman. Every piece of laundry wAS AS clean AS polished silver. Every piece wAS neatly ironed.

我母亲从未对一个洗衣女工如此满意。每件洗好的衣物干净得如同擦亮的银器，每件衣服都熨烫得非常整齐。

Most Jewish women of her age were sickly, weak, broken in body. But this washwoman, small and thin as she was, possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant ancestors.

大部分犹太妇女在她这个年龄时都体弱多病。但这个洗衣女工虽然瘦小，却从几代农民祖先那里继承了强壮的体力。