姑娘们正在割橡胶。用英语怎么说？

姑娘们正在割橡胶。

The girls were tapping the rubber.

the

art. 指已提到的人（物），指说话人与听者已知的人（物），用于独一无二的事物前，与形容词最高级和序数词连用；

例句
He did have a real knowledge of the country...
他对该国的确知之甚多。

girls

n. 女儿( girl的名词复数 )，女孩，女工，（男人的）女朋友；

例句
'When I was an adolescent,' says a thirty-one-year-old man, 'I thought girls held all the aces.'
“当我还是个毛头小伙儿时，”一个31岁的男人说，“我觉得完全是女孩子说了算。”

were

be的过去时复数和第二人称单数形式，有时代替 was,用于条件从句、动词 wish 之后等；

例句
Shops, houses, and vehicles were set ablaze.
店铺、房子和车辆全都陷于火海。

tapping

n. 出渣，出钢，出铁；v. 开发( tap的现在分词 )，（从容器等）汲取（液体），割[打]开…取[放]液体，轻拍，轻敲；

例句
He was tapping his walking stick against his leg.
他用手杖轻敲着腿。

rubber

n. 橡胶，橡皮，决胜局，避孕套；adj. 橡胶制成的；vt. 涂橡胶于，用橡胶制造；vi. 扭转脖子看，好奇地引颈而望；

例句
Seven people were wounded when soldiers fired rubber bullets to disperse crowds...
士兵发射橡皮子弹驱散人群时有7个人受了伤。