Besides, to associate even such simple ideas with words, and reason with them, was a work of time.

此外，将如此简单的想法与文字联系起来， 并用它们进行推理， 也是一件费时的工作。

His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth moth-eaten into rags, was quite a work of time.

他穿上他的盒子，我记得上面装饰着一块旧的沾满天气的豌豆绿色锤布，蛾子被吃掉成破布，这是一件相当长的时间工作。