工作着

A plaster cast of Madame Fournier stood in the artist’s studio.

那位艺术家的室里立一埃夫人的石膏像。

They sit around chewing the fat instead of working.

他们不，坐闲聊。

We must band ourselves against natural calamities despite the disputes on the working plan.

尽管我们对计划存在分歧,但我们应该联合起来与自然灾害斗争。

Bookkeeping is a sedentary occupation.

会计是一种需要坐的职业。

He’s at a crossroads in his career—either he stays in his current job and waits for promotion, or he accepts this new post in Brazil.

他的事业正处在紧要关头，要么继续干目前的，等升职，要么就接受巴西的新。

It serves, they say, as a reservoir of beneficial microbes which can recolonize the gut after it's emptied by diseases such as cholera or dysentery.

他们说它像一个有益菌的蓄水池那样，当被像霍乱和痢疾之类的疾病耗尽之后能够再重新迁移到肠道中去。