1. He was good for nothing now except navvy work. 他除了苦力外，什么也干不好了。
2. We should consider every navvy superior to Shakespeare. 我们应该把每一个粗人都看得比莎士比亚高明。
3. He had done the navvy work for a few days when he could get it. 他在力所能及的情况下干了几天挖土的活。
4. The navvy, swaying, presses a forefinger against a wing of his nose and ejects from the farther nostril a long liquid jet of snot. 这个苦力晃晃悠悠地用食指按住鼻翼的一边，从另一边鼻孔里擤出长长的一条鼻涕。
5. He felt weak and sore, and the pain of his smashed knuckles warned him that, even if he could find a job at navvy work, it would be a week before he could grip a pick handle or a shovel. 他觉得人很衰弱，身上处处酸疼，那些打碎了的指节也很疼，它们在警告他，即使他找到了一种粗活儿，也要等一个星期，他才能握得住一把锄头或者铲子。
