Pastime
['pɑːstaɪm] or ['pæstaɪm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly); 'sailing is her favorite pastime'; 'his main pastime is gambling'; 'he counts reading among his interests'; 'they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits'.
校對:玛克辛--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
(v. i.) To sport; to amuse one's self.
杰弗里整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Amusement, entertainment, diversion, sport, play, recreation.
乔安娜錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Recreation, entertainment, amusement, diversion, play, sport
ANT:Business, study, labor, task, occupation, work
校對:苏西
解釋/意思:
n. that which serves to pass away the time: amusement: recreation.
錄入:朱迪思
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
整理:米歇尔
例句/造句/用法:
- But it was too cold a pastime. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The night is spent in this jolly pastime. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I give you leave, returned Laurie, who enjoyed having someone to tease, after his long abstinence from his favorite pastime. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Think of ten days of this sort of pastime! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- One's safest course that day was to clasp a railing and hang on; walking was too precarious a pastime. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade, what other people pursue as a pastime. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He was startled when they came upon him while he was engaged in this latter pastime, and his colour changed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Clym cuts furze, but he does it mostly as a useful pastime, because he can do nothing else. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He is paid for his pastime, isn't he? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The feeling was not with her as with many, a pastime; it was a passion. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Pastime, said madame, still looking at him with a smile while her fingers moved nimbly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- This made study a pleasant pastime. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Howe took up the matter as a pastime, giving his spare moments to it, and talking it over with his wife in the evenings when he was not too tired. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Further reading awakened a deep interest in the problem of the airship, and they worked upon it, at first as a scientific pastime, but soon in all seriousness. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- To watch her children hour by hour, to sit by me, drinking deep the dear persuasion that I remained to her, was all her pastime. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Lonely musings, interminable wanderings, and solemn music were her only pastimes. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But as husbandmen have less leisure than shepherds, they are not so frequently employed in those pastimes. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Our pastimes to see, Under every green tree, In all the gay woodland, right welcome ye be. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The top floor was alight, and filled with soldiers engaged in the pastimes of their kind; I could not, therefore, reach the roof through the building. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- And, talking of the devil, Holy Clerk, are you not afraid that he may pay you a visit during some of your uncanonical pastimes? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The ordinary pastimes of such husbandmen are the same as those of shepherds, and are in the same manner the images of war. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They are indolent, as a general thing, and yet have few pastimes. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I did not omit even our sports and pastimes, or any other particular which I thought might redound to the honour of my country. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
校對:莱利亚