1. Drudging peasants; the bent backs of laboring slaves''.
操劳的农民；操劳于摘''。
2. The professor is drudging at dictionary-compiling.
教授正在辛苦地编字典。
3. His representative works are: poem collections such as Songs on the Border, In the North, Grass Sparse on the Plain, Cactus, Selected Poems by Gong Liu, I Want to Have a Home, Short Poems by Gong Liu for Perusing; collection of short stories A Street on the Border; scenario Ashma and Cloud of Waiting Wife; commentary collections Drudging on the Road of Poems and Poems and Honesty; random note collections Longing for Wine, Walking Memorial Tablet, and Voice on the Paper------ Random Notes by Gong Liu; essay collections Proper Topic Expounded Improperly, and Say No to Calcium Deficiency; reportage collections Crevices, etc.
其代表作有诗集《边地短歌》、《在北方》、《离离原上草》、《仙人掌》、《公刘诗选》、《我想有个家》、《公刘短诗精读》，短篇小说集《国境一条街》，电影剧本《阿诗玛》、《望夫云》，评论集《诗路跋涉》、《诗与诚实》，散文随笔集《酒的怀念》、《活的纪念碑》、《纸上声——公刘随笔》，杂文集《正题歪做》、《不能缺钙》，报告文学集《裂缝》等等。
4. I couldn't bend my knees, so I was drudging along with the poles.
我不能弯曲我的膝盖，我用杆子艰难行进。