1. The man in the middle is mending shoes.
    中间这位男子正在修鞋，

2. ´The strap needs mending,´ said Mrs Sterling later.
    “皮包带需要修理，”Sterling 太太后来说.

3. A run-down watch is still a watch and can be rewound. An old watch, by contrast, becomes so worn and unreliable that it eventually is not worth mending.
    手表停了依然是只手表，还可以重上好发条。然而一只老掉牙的手表，磨损太厉害，老得一点儿不准了，最终不值得修理了。

4. ´The strap needs mending,´ said Mrs. Sterling later, ´but they did not steal anything.´
    "这提包带需要修理，"斯特林夫人事后说道，"不过他们什么也没偷走。"