I was enjoying the second week of a two-week vacation the same way I had enjoyed the first week: by doing as little as possible.

放假两周，到了第二周我还是像第一周一样的几乎什么事情也不做。

I ignored my wife's not-so-subtle hints about completing certain jobs around the house, but I didn't realize how much this bothered her until the clothes dryer refused to work, the iron shorted and the sewing machine motor burned out in the middle of a seam. The final straw came when she plugged in the vacuum cleaner and nothing happened.

妻子数次不太高明的暗示让我做些家务，但是我却置若罔闻。但是我没意识到这些家务活对他产生多大的困扰：干衣机坏了，熨斗短路，缝纫机中途烧坏，最后一件，吸尘器也同样是没用的东西，插上电源，却不能用。

She looked so stricken that I had to offer some consolation.

"That's okay, honey," I said. "You still have me."

She looked up at me with tears in her eyes. "Yes," she wailed, "but you don't work either!"

她看起来很沮丧，我只好安慰她说：没关系的，亲爱的，还有我在呢。

她看着我，满眼是泪的哭道：“是的，可是你像它们一样也是不能运行的”