百无聊赖

One who goes touring on foot with a single volume in his knapsack reads with circumspection, pausing often to reflect, and often laying the book down to contemplate the landscape or the prints in the inn parlour; for he fears to come to an end of his entertainment, and be left companionless on the last stages of his journey.

设想一下，有个人，他吃了一顿无比丰盛，包罗万有的大餐，从此不再感到饥饿；他一眼尽览世界景观，从此对知识兴味索然。如果他把所有事都以这种方式体验完了，那么接下来的日子，他会不会百无聊赖？

At an ordinary night in April of this year, idly but predestinately, I first encountered you in your TV play.

四月的一个夜晚，百无聊赖之中却也似冥冥注定，让我第一次遇到了你。

Therefore, there are seldom macro and sublime subjects in his creations; on the contrary, there are more about bagatelle and trivialness of life, like the picture here that seemed like a party of friends. Liu Xiaodong had taken a common scene as the narrating theme here.

所以，有时候我们不会在他的作品中看到脱离生活的宏大叙事，反倒都是一些不起眼的，或者说没想到能在艺术作品中出现的场景，甚至有时候就是在一种街头巷尾的闲逛视角中关注到的各个阶层平民百姓最百无聊赖的生活。

Feeling very frail, he watched the old man weeding an already weedless garden.

他百无聊赖地看着老头在认真地为根本没有杂草的整洁花园铲除杂草，自己觉得浑身虚弱。

It wasn't until I one day looked blank out the window at the snow drizzling down that it came to me.

直到有一天，当我站在窗边百无聊赖地看着窗外飞舞的雪花时，我的灵感来了。

It wasn't until I one day looked blank out the window at the snow drizzling down that it came to me.

直到有一天，当我站在窗边百无聊赖地看着窗外飞舞的雪花时，我的灵

We were miserable because we had no way of knowing if we were doing well: we read out our essays to bored dons who would yawn while fellow students fidgeted.

我们痛苦，因为我们无法知道自己做得好不好：我们把论文读给百无聊赖的导师，他们打着哈欠，而同学们则坐立不安。

In a country that idealizes the good life, the reality of drudgery and waiting for the monthly pay check, or of solitude in retirement, may be harder to accept.

在这样一个将优质生活理想化的国家，繁琐的工作现实、等待每月薪水，或者是退休后的百无聊赖，都更难以接受。

Several Singaporean businessmen came up with the idea after waiting a long time for their wives to finish manicures while on a trip to Thailand.

研制电子美甲仪的想法说来有趣，它是几位新加坡商人一次去泰国旅游途中，在百无聊赖地等待妻子们美甲时想出来的。

It is always to seize that person in a mass, extract him or her from a group, however small, in which he or she participates, whether it be through the family only or through something else; then to find that person's own packs, the multiplicities he or she encloses within himself or herself which may be of an entirely different nature.

YOUTUBE上的D面对访问他的美女记者一副百无聊赖、无可奈何，却并没有把所有的蔑视写在脸上。如果我可以相信星座这门伪科学，我知道摩羯座孤芳自赏的心，同时也明白在最后的最后，这个摩羯为什么宁肯选择从天空下坠。

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。