There was a woman mopping the stairs.

有个女人正在拖楼梯。

There are a few things that need mopping up before I can leave.

我还有几件事儿，了结了才能走。

Mopping robots can help people forget their busy life.

拖地机器人可以帮助人们忘记他们忙碌的生活。

A. Oh, they are mopping the floor.

喔，他们正在拖地。

She is mopping the floor.

她正在拖地板。

I was mopping up the floor this time yesterday.

昨天这个时候我正在拖把地板。

Some might say that's more productive than mopping.

有的人可能会认为这种方式将比搽地板更有效率。

I stayed in bed too long, Mr Groc panted, mopping his brow.

“我起来晚了。”鳄鱼先生紧皱着眉头，气喘吁吁地说。

Mopping the floor with washing water, then flush the toilet.

用洗衣水拖地，接着冲马桶。

Waste water can be used to flush the toilet, mopping, watering the flowers.

废水可以用来冲厕所，拖地、浇花。

The famine was licked and the Japanese mopping-up campaigns had slowed down.

饥荒终于被战胜了，日寇的大扫荡也不如以前那样猖獗了。

That would also have the effect of mopping up liquidity in the system and fighting inflation.

这样做还有回笼流动性、抗击通货膨胀的作用。

"He... He knew I liked books," said Hermione in a thick voice, mopping her eyes with her sleeve.

“他……他知道我喜欢书。”赫敏声音嘶哑地说，用袖子擦了擦眼睛。

What is the way out? I bought an accum home, and decreased the frequency of mopping floor by water.

我买了个吸尘器，降低了用水洗地板的频率。

Mr Cooley, from horseback, told them not to sit around too long, but to get on with mopping up the fire.

马背上的厄尔先生让他们不要坐太久，必须继续扫尾工作。

Then picked up a piece of wet towel, kneeling on the ground mopping the floor, and always busy until noon.

接着拿起一块湿毛巾，跪在地上擦起地板来，一直忙活到中午。

A new class of drug fights food poisoning by mopping up the toxins that bacteria release. Karen Hopkin reports.

一种新药能够通过擦除细菌释放的毒素来对抗食物中毒，Karen Hopkin报道。

Rather than mopping up shares in Cathay, Air China should now be turning the screw in a rebounding domestic market.

与其买入国泰股份，国航现在应该在反弹中的国内市场加大竞争力度。

They will be particularly interested in immune cells known as "microglia", which go around mopping up cellular debris.

他们对被称为“小神经胶质细胞”的这种免疫细胞尤其感兴趣，该细胞到处游走，清理细胞残骸。

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned Thursday it is too early to begin 'mopping up' the effects of stimulus.

国际货币基金组织总裁斯特劳斯·卡恩(Dominique Strauss - Kahn)周四警告说，现在消除刺激计划影响还为时过早。

Khartoum is not only awash in its own oil money, but is also mopping up some of the surplus petrodollars of the Middle East.

喀土穆满地留油、金元四溢，不仅如此，还将中东过剩的“油元”(petrodollars)据为己有。

But that means there is plenty of scope for the leading firms to grow, and magnify their profits, by mopping up smaller competitors.

但这意味着通过消灭较弱的竞争者，领头公司有巨大的空间成长并增加利润。

Over the past few decades companies have contracted out everything from mopping the floors to spotting the flaws in their internet security.

在过去的几十年，公司招商承办从清洁地板到修复互联网安全漏洞等所有事情。

Trading is closer to flying a plane than to mopping a floor, meaning you'll need to invest a lot of time and energy in mastering this craft.

交易和开飞机非常一样难，而不是用拖把拖地那么简单，这意味着你需要花费很多时间和精力去掌握它。

Mopping might have a limited appeal, but it is cheaper than going to the gym and you can do it in the comfort of your home, researchers said.

研究人员说，擦地可能没多大吸引力，但比去健身房便宜，还能在家舒服地进行。