pastime 四级GRE考研

1.by way of pastime (=for a pastime)

作消遣

2.mixing up the signposts was a favourite pastime of the more mischievous pupils.

混置路标是那些更淘气学生最爱消遣。

3.his favourite pastimes were shooting and golf.

他最喜欢娱乐项目是射击和打高尔夫球。

4.Mrs. Saddletree saw the house freed of her importunate visitors, and the little boy reclaimed from the pastimes of the wind to the exercise of the awl .

萨德尔特里太太看到那些讨厌客人走光了，小男孩从隔壁胡同里玩够了，回来重新拿起了锥子。