needle work

基本解释

So, what do you do there? Surely not needle work!
那麽，你在那裡做什麽呢？一定不是針線活吧？
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt. Parsely sage rosemary and thyme. Without no seams nor needle work. Then she will be a true love of mine.
告訴他做件細麻紗襯衣，玫瑰花瓣鑲嵌在衣襟裡，不要顯露出縫邊和針工，這將是我最美麗的嫁衣。
In the next room, I found Nanine asleep over her needle work. The creaking of the door woke her, and she asked me if her mistress had returned.
在隔壁房間裡我看到納尼娜撲在她的活計上麪睡著了。聽到門響的聲音，她驚醒了，問我是不是她的女主人廻來了。

Embroidery work involves using colored yarn and a needle to create designs on the surface of cloth.

As Forbes wrote in March, Merck has a killer app when it comes to making copycat proteins (see "Needle Work").
FORBES
Candy watched as Marjorie attempted to work the needle through the material in the seed-size stitches required for the seam she was sewing.
NEWYORKER: The Visitor
Put differently, how can documentary filmmakers working on long-standing social and political issues ensure that their work is well poised to move the needle on their chosen topic in a significant way?
FORBES: Shifting Narratives Through Documentary Film: A Case Study of 'Budrus'

女紅
All of these formed a characteristic women’s world. This text combines the study of the Song ci and women’s life together, and researches women’s world in Song ci from eight kinds of things with the characteristics of female as the research object, which is makeup, hair-ornament, golden dress, shoes and socks, handkerchief, divining, needlework and writing.
本文將宋詞研究與宋代婦女生活研究相綰郃,選取了化妝、發飾、服飾用金、鞋襪、手帕、佔蔔、女紅、書寫等八類具有女性特征的物事作爲研究對象,探討宋詞中的女性世界。
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