There were the electricians, the sheet-metalworkers, the carpenters and the pilots in their star-spangled ties.
电工、钢板工人、木工和飞行员都西装笔挺,领带星光闪耀。
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When I got home, we helped a group of unemployed sheet-metalworkers set up businesses and cooperate in cost-sharing and marketing as I had observed Italian leatherworkers and furniture makers doing.
In 2004 I visited one that used to make refrigerators. Its workers had stripped it of everything valuable, then torched it so thoroughly that the warehouse was a sculpture of buckled sheetmetal.