You're all busy beavering away. What you're beavering away on?

你们都在忙着干活。你们都在忙什么？

Raskin went to the garage, saw Wozniak beavering away at a workbench, and was convinced by Jobs to write the manual for $50.

拉斯金来到乔布斯的车库，看到了在工作台上埋头苦干的沃兹尼亚克，并被乔布斯说服，接受了以 50 美元的报酬为他们编写操作手册。

Further than before from the inside story, he nonetheless remained a backroom boy in a sense, beavering away in the upper chamber and on official commissions to review such hard-to-sort subjects as electoral reform and social care for the elderly.

故事以往不曾有的是，他却在某种意义上一直处在幕后，为上议院和官方委员会辛勤的工作，回顾那些难以排序的事件（比如选举改革，或是老年人的社会福利）。