He loved to play chess and he loved to play billiards.

他喜欢下棋 打桌。

Or is it more like billiards?

还是它更像是台？

He fills his billiard room with earthworms in pots, with glass covers.

他在台室里放满了 玻璃罩罐里的蚯蚓。

There's an important difference here because billiards, of course, involves angles.

它们是有很大的差别的因为游戏是涉及到角度的。

It's too sad and funny to go with the rattling of billiard balls.

这事悲伤而又滑稽，和台卡塔卡塔的声音合不上拍。

That game of gravitational billiards would also strip any moons away from such a planet.

引力撞的游戏也会让卫星脱离该行星。

Suppose you drop a billiard ball, it falls to the ground; we wouldn't say the billiard ball is acting freely.

假设你扔了，它掉到地上，我们不会说是在自由行动。

For example, let's say you are skilled at playing the game of pool, also known as pocket billiards.

例如，假设你很擅长打台，也叫口袋台。

You never play billiards except with Thurston.

而没有瑟斯顿作伴 你不会打台。

During the 19th century, the demand for ivory billiard balls decimated elephant populations, forcing chemists to look for a synthetic alternative.

19 世纪时期，象牙制的台让大象数量锐减，迫使化学家寻找合成替代品。

I wish you would tell it to someone in the billiard room, said Old Bryson. You know how I hate your stories.

“你的故事还是去讲给这间台室里的其他人吧，”老布莱斯说道。“你知道我有多讨厌听你讲故事。”

One is to use a “kinetic impactor”—in effect employing a heavy, fast-moving spacecraft as the cue ball in a game of interplanetary billiards.

一种办法是使用“动能冲击飞船”——就好像把一种重型快速移动的飞船当做白，在太空打台一样。

Various kinds of sports activities are provided by this club, for example, Squash, fitness facilities, running group, bridge, billiards and snooker, golf, chess and backgammon.

俱乐部还提供各种体育运动。例如，壁、健身器械、跑步队、桥牌、台、高尔夫、 国际象棋和十五棋。

And what humanistic psychology said was that we are much more than a billiard ball being knocked around. We have spirit. We have a soul.

而人本主义心理学认为 我们不只是被击打的台 我们有精神 有灵魂。

It has a knack of slipping into place with a sweet silence and glibness of movement, as a billiard ball insinuates itself into the pocket.

机智具有一种悄无声息地占据有利位置，口齿伶俐地表达自己的想法的技巧，就像巧妙迂回落入袋中一样。

The meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.

用它的肉做成跟差不多大小的肉，加了好作料，也许会被当成海鳖肉或者小牛肉。

The mansion had a ballroom, but it looked like a billiard table compared with the enormous room that covered the entire third floor of Scarlett's house.

官邸里有一间舞厅，但是和思嘉住宅里占了整三层楼的大厅相比，简直就像是台桌了。

Could it be that those professional golfers, who excel at golf, have a stake in golf being honored and recognized as an athletic event, not just a game of skill like billiards?

那些擅长打高尔夫并投入大量精力的职业高尔夫员，能否因高尔夫算作体育赛事，而不仅是一项类似台的运动，从而获得赞誉和认可？

They also funnel high energy particles down to a layer of the Sun called the chromosphere, where they quickly transfer their energy like a cue ball striking the rack in the game of billiards.

它们还能集合成高能粒，掉进太阳的光化层，在那这些高能粒快速的转化其能量，就像台中时用母撞击一堆目标一样。

The complementary reds and greens combine garishly a billiard table replaces the respectable piece of furniture in the family kitchen: a passion for gaming has sapped these people’s strength, and also their ability to connect with one another.

沉迷于游戏已经削弱了这些人的体力， 以及与他人沟通的能力。