do the washing

Do the washing = 洗衣服

Washing (noun) = (a) clothes that need to be washed
(b) the act of washing the clothes

My mother always does the washing on Mondays.

Take ….. away 有許多的解法

(1) If you take something away from a place, you remove it and put it somewhere else. (拿走)
You must not take these reference books away from the library.

(2) If you take someone/something away from a person, a place or an organization, you remove it and prevent them from having it anymore. (帶走, 剝奪)
My father took me away from school and taught me himself.
They are going to take his citizenship away.

(3) If someone takes you away, you go with them to stay at another place or they force you to go with them, (帶走, 将..带離)
She took the children away to her parents' house.
Two policemen took the thief away to the police station.

(4) To make a feeling, pain etc disappear. (消除, 解除)
These tablets should help take the pain away

(5) If something takes your breath away, it is so beautiful, exciting or surprising that you are unable to breathe normally for a moment.(透不過氣來 )
The first sight of waterfall takes your breath away.

(6) If you take one number or amount away from another, you subtract the first from the second. (減去)
If you take four away from ten, that leaves six.

(7) If you take food away from a restaurant, you buy a cooked dish at a restaurant and carry it away to eat at somewhere else. (外賣)
Two chicken curries with rice to take away, please.

Takeaway [英國] = Takeout [北美] = 外賣; 外賣餐館 (noun)
當做 noun (名詞), 是一個單字, 不是兩個字

do the washing = 洗東西 (例如指把衣服洗了)，但食完飯洗碗碟則叫do the dishes
take…away = 把(東西)拿走(離開這裏)。除了一般的意思，外國的外賣叫take away或take out. 在餐廳/快餐店坐下來食的叫dine in.有些餐廰會眼到Take-out排隊和Dine-in排隊等位的牌的。