pastime

Baseball has a huge following in the United States and is referred to as the national pastime.

棒球在美国深受欢迎，并且被称作是全民喜爱的运动项目。

Chasing dead ends is a favorite pastime in software development and the column would not be true to itself if I failed to report on those.

在软件开发中，钻牛角尖是一项非常有趣的消遣，如果我不对此进行报告，那么本专栏本身就不真实。

Dad loved to read. Reading newspaper was his favourite pastime. He would relate the news to his neighbours.

爹是书迷，一有空就看书看报，看到新鲜事，就出去讲给老夥计们听。

It was your favorite pastime making me blue. Last week was the last time I cried for you.

使我悲伤是你最爱的消遣，最后一次为你哭泣是在上个星期。

Some consumers even consider shopping to be something of a sport, perhaps even the modern-day national pastime.

不过有的消费者却把购物视为一项体育运动，甚至是当下国民消磨时间的方式。

White hats are the good guys who are hacking for the craic of it, a fun pastime for bored teenagers and creative computer-literate minds.

所谓的正派骇客是好的，他们为只了好玩，没事做的青少年们和电脑天才们靠这个来打发时间。

Meeks said he looked for any type of encounter, seeking out unusual places and pursuing the supernatural as a pastime and passion.

米克斯说，他对所有形式的灵异遭遇都进行过寻觅。追寻灵异场所，发掘超自然事件，是他的消遣，也是爱好所在。

Not to be proud of rabbit and the tortoise looked down on this game, but the game as a pastime, some good turtle ridiculed.

骄傲的小白兔并不把与乌龟的这场比赛放在眼里，而把这场比赛当作消遣，好好奚落乌龟一番。

It is sort of a cultural pastime that goes beyond mere homemaking instruction.

烹饪作为一种消遣，其超越了仅仅是家庭任务的范畴。

Jose Antonio Reyes - 6: Tackling back may not be his favourite pastime but he did an admirable job and looked a threat down the left.

雷耶斯6：回防也许不是他最喜欢的失球，但是他做了令人尊敬的工作，在左路看起来有威胁。

DEFENDING the French language from the creeping invasion of English has long been a favourite pastime of France's elite.

还是忠实一下原文：保卫法语免受英语侵蚀一直是法国精英最津津乐道的消遣活动。

He could do it in an hour, and how many times had he, for pure pastime, continued in the water for more than twice as long!

三里路他在一小时内就可以游到，从前，纯碎是为了消遣，他曾多次在水里游过两倍于那么长的距离！

The front yard even incorporates a petanque court, a favorite pastime of the client.

设计师甚至不忘在前院设置一个法式滚球场，这也就成了业主的最佳休闲运动。

Embroidery was a good pastime to which they might devote their intelligence and passion.

刺绣是一个很好的消遣和他们可能贡献自己的智慧和热情。

Playing make-believe rodeo with sheep has long been a pastime of rambunctious rural children.

长久以来用骑羊来作为假想的牛仔骑术比赛是乡村中顽皮的孩子的一种消遣方式。

Discussion of new ideas and potential changes has been going on for months, so long it's become somewhat of a pastime.

对新点子和潜在变化的讨论已经持续了几个月，以致于他变成只是一个消遣的话题。

In Burkina Faso, blogging is more than a pastime. It is the eyes and ears of thousands of net users.

在布吉纳法索，写部落格并不只是种消遣娱乐，更是许多网路使用者收集资讯的眼耳。

It might seem an idle pastime but academics have come up with a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate.

这也许会被视为无聊的消遣，然而已有学者提出数学方程式解释人们的拖延症。

But their bricks are Chinese Mahjong! A very popular pastime among the Hutong people, especially among the senior citizens who have retired.

他们使用的是最新的砖——麻将牌。它是非常流行的消遣方式，特别在退休的老年人中倍受青睐。

And if that seems too cerebral, an entertaining pastime is to hunt for words that are either missing from a language, or unique to it.

如果这些思考看上去太复杂，那么还有一种娱乐性较强的消遣方式，就是寻找一种语言中已经消失，或者特有的词。