taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts
cutting grass and curing it to make hay
双语例句
1. Good haymaking weather comes in late May.
五月下旬出现适于调制干草的好天气。
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2. Ivan Denisovich was not an intellectual: he was a peasant who was horrified to discover, in a letter from his wife, that the farmers in his village were now working in factories rather than haymaking.
3. Ivan Denisovich was not an intellectual: he was a peasant who was horrified to discover, in a letter from his wife, that the farmers in his village were now working in factories rather than haymaking.