消磨

I will not, like a sluggard, wear out my youth in idleness at home.

我不愿意象个懒人一样待在家里，游手好闲地把我的青春消磨掉。

Modern life, bypresenting us with a smorgasbord of things to do, can reduce ourmotivation to do any one of them.

现在像快餐式的生活，慢慢的消磨着我们的动力，以至于不想做任何事情。

Rebecca watched some soap drama to kill time.

蕾贝卡看了一些电视剧消磨时间）。

I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.

我消磨着时光，调理我的乐器。

When it was dark I set by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.

天黑了，我在营帐边上抽着烟，心里觉得挺满意的。慢慢地又感到有点儿寂寞。我便在河岸上坐下，倾听着流水冲刷河岸声，数数天上的星星，数数从上游漂下来的木头和木筏子，然后去睡觉。在寂寞的时候，这是消磨时间最好的办法了。你不会老是这样的，你很快就会习惯的。

New term ..one new day ..

新的学期，我们一起来消磨

Ford said she paid for $5 of gas and slowly returned to the vehicle, stalling for time as she handed Tillie the change.

福特说她向加油站付了5美元，磨磨蹭蹭的返回汽车想以此消磨时间。

Time killer n .

消磨时间的东西。。

Sturdy drovers stopped to drink at the little bar; well-to-do farmers spent their evenings and talked politics in the low, wainscoted parlour, while their horses munched some suspicious mixture of moldy hay and tolerable beans in the tumble-down stables.

身强力壮的、赶着牲口上市的买卖人都到小酒吧来歇脚喝酒；富裕的农民在低低的镶着护壁板的客厅里消磨黄昏、漫谈政治，而他们的马儿在歪歪斜斜的马棚里咀嚼一些用发霉的稻草拌和着勉强可吃的豆子的可疑饲料。

He used to spend his evenings in this very room, though the walls were damp at that time, and we weren't able to paper the place for nearly a twelvemonth afterwards.

他时常在这房间里消磨黄昏，尽管那时墙头是潮湿的，而我们几乎是在过了一年以后才能糊上墙纸。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。