When the schoolmaster got back Sue was making a pretence of doing some housewifery as if she lived there.

校长回来时， 苏假装在， 就好像她住在那儿似的。

Yet here was no fault of housewifery; the curse could not be lifted, as the ingrained smudges permanent on the once white woodwork proved.

然而，这并不是庭主妇的错； 诅咒无法解除， 经白色的木制品上根深蒂固的污迹证明了这一点。

Kitty's mother had brought to London from her native Liverpool a practical sense of housewifery and Kitty, notwithstanding her air of frivolity, had always had certain gifts to which she referred only in bantering tones.

基蒂的母亲从她的乡把一种实用的庭主妇意识带到了伦敦，尽管基蒂轻浮，但她总是有某些天赋， 她只是在开玩笑的时候提到过。