needle work

基本解释

So, what do you do there? Surely not needle work!
那么，你在那里做什么呢？一定不是针线活吧？
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.
告诉他做件细麻纱衬衣，玫瑰花瓣镶嵌在衣襟里，不要显露出缝边和针工，这将是我最美丽的嫁衣。
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.
在隔壁房间里我看到纳尼娜扑在她的活计上面睡着了。听到门响的声音，她惊醒了，问我是不是她的女主人回来了。

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'

女红
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.
本文将宋词研究与宋代妇女生活研究相绾合,选取了化妆、发饰、服饰用金、鞋袜、手帕、占卜、女红、书写等八类具有女性特征的物事作为研究对象,探讨宋词中的女性世界。
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