Pastime

(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'.

校对:玛克辛

• But it was too cold a pastime. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The night is spent in this jolly pastime. 沃尔特·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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Think of ten days of this sort of pastime! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• One's safest course that day was to clasp a railing and hang on; walking was too precarious a pastime. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He was startled when they came upon him while he was engaged in this latter pastime, and his colour changed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Clym cuts furze, but he does it mostly as a useful pastime, because he can do nothing else. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He is paid for his pastime, isn't he? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The feeling was not with her as with many, a pastime; it was a passion. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Pastime, said madame, still looking at him with a smile while her fingers moved nimbly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• This made study a pleasant pastime. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• 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. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• 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. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Lonely musings, interminable wanderings, and solemn music were her only pastimes. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But as husbandmen have less leisure than shepherds, they are not so frequently employed in those pastimes. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Our pastimes to see, Under every green tree, In all the gay woodland, right welcome ye be. 沃尔特·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. 埃德加·赖斯·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? 沃尔特·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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They are indolent, as a general thing, and yet have few pastimes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I did not omit even our sports and pastimes, or any other particular which I thought might redound to the honour of my country. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.

校对:莱利亚