消磨

It wallows in ways to make time pass----hours of sitting before the television or in aimless puttering.

人们被动地混日子，消极地消磨时间----连续几小时坐在电视前或盲无目的地乱转。

Under these circumstances of course it was no use going to the Court, so the two young men strolled through the village and looked at the old church, and then went and reconnoitered the streams in which they were to fish the next day, and by such means beguiled the time till after seven o'clock.

在这种情况下，当然到庄院去也没有用了，所以两个年轻人便在村子里闲逛，先看看老教堂，然后再踏勘他们第二天要去钓鱼的溪流，他们用这个办法消磨时间，直到七点钟以后。

People beautify only what they love, and death repels us and tires our patience.

人们只会美化他们只所爱，但是死亡让我们反感并消磨我们的耐心。

Blond children scoot around on bicycles, elderly German couples take their evening constitutionals along the waterfront and teenagers who look surprisingly like California surfer dudes guide tourists through an utterly un-African extreme sports scene: sand boarding, sand sledding, sand skiing and sand sailing — none of which includes a dune lift, so all of which demand repeated uphill slogs through the sand and the inhalation of lungfuls of Namibian dust.

白肤金发的儿童在自行车兜圈，年长的德国夫妇沿着江边消磨自己晚上的时光，看起来像加利福尼亚的花花公子的青少年们在引导游人体验这种绝对的并非－非洲人的极限运动场景：沙滩木板、沙滩雪橇、沙滩滑雪术和沙滩航行术。所有的运动无不被沙丘弹到空中，所以所有的运动要求穿过沙土艰难的向上行进，两肺都将吸入大量的纳米比亚的尘土。

Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)在一篇文章中承认自己是a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.

一个顽固的、恬不知耻的茶迷，二十年来，每顿饭后他只饮用这种神奇的植物泡制的饮料；他的茶壶很少有凉下来的时候；他用茶来消磨夜晚时光，用茶来安抚午夜的孤寂感，又用茶来迎接天明。

It instructs and informs, startles and provokes, arouses and amuses the reader with a keen enthusiasm for seeing and taking pleasure in the affairs of the world.

它指示并告知，并挑起惊人，引起读者和消磨了浓厚的热情与快乐的同时看到世界的事。

He spent his time tippling at the inn.

他在酒店饮酒消磨时光。

People love vegetating in front of the television, myself included more often than I'd like.

人们喜欢百无聊赖的在电视机前消磨时光，比如我，还有好多像我一样的人。

It passively accepts what is put before it,it wallows in ways to make time pass----hours of sitting before the television or in aimless puttering

人们被动地混日子，消极地消磨时间----连续几小时坐在电视前或盲无目的地乱转。

She whiled away the hours of waiting by looking at the shops.

她以逛商店的方式把好几个小时的等候时间消磨掉了。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。