查询词典 pastime

Peeping into this for the slightest unguided moments, to form the most scandalous gossip, is our favorite pastime.

乘着稍稍没有管束的时候，偷窥这教室，作为笑谈资料，是我们喜好的消遣。

Apple prognosticating is such a popular pastime, in part, because Mr. Jobs has proved so adept at becoming a power broker in markets a Silicon Valley computer company -- once known as Apple Computer -- has no right to dominate. The iPod remains the top MP3 player, with more than 70% of the market, and Apple is now the top retailer of music in the nation, ahead of Wal-Mart Stores. Less than a year after entering the cellphone business with the iPhone, Apple became the second-largest provider of smart phones in the U.S.

之所以有这么多人对预测苹果未来的产品乐此不疲，部分原因在于乔伯斯让人看到了他高超的驾驭能力，成功地让一家硅谷电脑公司在其本来无权专美的多个市场中占据了领先地位。iPod仍是最主流的MP3播放器，占据70%以上的市场份额；苹果公司现在是美国最大的音乐零售商，超过了沃尔玛(Wal-Mart Stores)；推出iPhone进入手机市场不到一年时间，苹果公司就成为美国第二大智能手机供应商。

This is hardly the only nation where local bureaucrats sometimes run a bit too free. But in China, where many local officials are less than well trained and only the party can eject them from office, local governments' dubious edicts are common enough that skewering them has become a favorite pastime of China's Web users.

几乎没有一个国家的地方官员能如此随意使用权利，但是在中国，许多的地方官员素质不高，并且只有共产党能罢免他们，抨击击他们出台的令人质疑的法令法规成了中国网民的一项颇受欢迎的娱乐消遣。

This is hardly the only nation where local bureaucrats sometimes run a bit too free. But in China,where many local officials are less than well trained and only the party can eject them from office, local governments' dubious edicts are common enough that skewering them has become a favorite pastime of China's Web users.

这可能是世界上唯一一个国家基层官员有这么大的自由，在中国，很多本地基层官员没有受到良好的训练并且只有可能被PARTY 赶出办公室，基层官员奇怪的法令常常会成为互联网用户的饭后谈资。

This was an aristocratic pastime, but as Mr Keller observes, America democratised it somewhat—Hamilton's opponent came from snootier stock and would never have fought him had they both lived in Europe.

决斗是一种贵族式的消遣，但正如凯勒评述的那样，美国还是把它稍稍民主化了。汉密尔顿的对手出身骄傲自大的世家；倘若两人都生活在欧洲，那他是绝不会和汉密尔顿决斗的。

The tennis racket started its evolution in the 1500s, going from all-wood to a newer version with a wooden handle and sheep gut serving as a head. The sport became the national pastime in France as Paris already had over 1,000 courts.

16世纪网球拍得到了改进，由全木制的改进为柄是木制的，球拍的顶部用羊内脏制成，这项运动成为法国一项极为普遍的消遣娱乐方式，当时巴黎有一千多个网球场。

Even singing, the national pastime and TV staple, seems reserved for an interchangeable lineup of warbling coquettes, husky crooners and jolly fellows in brass stars and epaulets belting out odes to red flags.

即便是在国家娱乐活动及电视晚会的歌唱环节中，也总是看见一些换汤不换药的风尘女子、沙哑的男低音和貌似愉悦的跟班，在军衔和铜制五星的簇拥下高歌红旗颂。

Small screen really stand out. Even singing, the national pastime and TV staple, seems reserved for an interchangeable lineup of warbling coquettes, husky crooners and jolly fellows in brass stars and epaulets belting out odes to red flags.

即便是在国家娱乐活动及电视晚会的歌唱环节中，也总是看见一些换汤不换药的风尘女子、沙哑的男低音和貌似愉悦的跟班，在军衔和铜制五星的簇拥下高歌红旗颂。

Even singing, the national pastime and TV staple, seems reserved for an interchangeable lineup of warbling coquettes, husky crooners and jolly fellows in bra stars and epaulets belting out odes to red flags.

即便是在国家娱乐活动及电视晚会的歌唱环节中，也总是看见一些换汤不换药的风尘女子、沙哑的男低音和貌似愉悦的跟班，在军衔和铜制五星的簇拥下高歌红旗颂。

Even singing, the national pastime and TV staple, seems reserved for an interchangeable lineup of warbling coquettes, husky crooners and jolly fellows in brass stars and epaulets belting out odes to red flags. Times

即便是在国家娱乐活动及电视晚会的歌唱环节中，也总是看见一些换汤不换药的风尘女子、沙哑的男低音和貌似愉悦的跟班，在军衔和铜制五星的簇拥下高歌红旗颂。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷