pastime的意思|pastime的解释-里氏词典

pastime ['pæstaim]

n. 消遣, 娱乐, 游戏

pastime

[ noun ]
a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly)
<noun.act>
sailing is her favorite pastimehis main pastime is gambling
he counts reading among his interests
they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits

Pastime \Pas"time`\, n. [Pass + time: cf. F. passetemps.]
That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably;
sport; amusement; diversion.

Pastime \Pas"time`\, v. i.
To sport; to amuse one's self. [R.]

Now that mall-wandering has replaced cruising the strip as young America's favorite pastime, it seems the rules are changing.
As he puts it, "Anything called the national pastime is worth caring about."
When outlawed in 1835, this pastime gave way to dog fighting, in which the pit bull proved to be a ferocious competitor.
"We are delighted to see others share our view that the printed word is thriving and that reading is still a very popular pastime," she said.
It is little wonder then that the society promotes such a highly ordered, highly regimented pastime as mass games and treats the man who runs them as a member of the elite.
If we had a request to look at it, it would be considered." There were no signs at either end of the bridge setting capacity limits or warning visitors against swinging the bridge, which was a popular pastime among young people.
"And half of it to creating a new mathematics to explain how six halves equal one whole." It's a harmless political pastime right now, because there isn't any peace dividend to pay for other things or cut the deficit this year.
Ruth was a "true American hero" who "epitomized the very best of our national pastime," Weicker, R-Conn., said Thursday.
It is a good evening for 'pastime' programmes.
Defining new social offenses has supplanted baseball as the national pastime, but if some Indians say they are offended, one should respect their feelings.
Whatever the future of the experiment, industry watchers predict scratch cooking will become ever more a recreational, weekend pastime.
"A lot of people today regard it as kind of an innocent pastime," says the Rev. Page Kelley, an Old Testament scholar of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
In a book still in the works, Mr. Baltzell is tracing the decline of manners in tennis as the sport has evolved from an upper-class pastime into a big-money game.
The fund-raising ducks are largely the brainchild of a Phoenix, Ariz., company that says it drew on a 19th century Irish pastime for its inspiration.
A favorite pastime begun is the rolling of an orange down the aisle on takeoff to see how far it gets before disappearing under a seat.
Pinball played in brightly lit, smoke-filled parlors where millions of Japanese escape stress and engage in low-stakes gambling has long rivaled baseball as Japan's national pastime.
Bush arrived in Maine Wednesday, announcing he was aiming to "get my body in shape" with his favorite vacation pastime _ intensive exercise.
He said that hand-knitting as a pastime had slumped worldwide in less than a generation.
Fishing is much more than an industry or pastime in the Basque Country.
But then we can't recall any time in recent history when expanding government bureaucracy was not a popular pastime in our nation's capital.
The room on the campus of the Naval War College is used for war games, a serious pastime that draws participants from around the world.
A city divided, torn asunder by the nation-next-door's national pastime.
People-watching is a favorite pastime, and what better place to do it than at the bottom of an escalator where I get paid for singing Italian opera. With such an occupation, I am inviting some reaction.
As in McDowell County, drinking is a favorite pastime.
"Basically when I was growing up, the only thing we did for pastime was go to bootleggers and get something to drink and ride around and drink it and drive around and see how fast you could take those mountain curves," he recalled.
The City Council voted 9-1 Tuesday to begin a repeal of the decade-old ban of the pastime along Ocean Front Walk in the beach community.
Argentina's soccer loss is but the latest in a string of events that have won Mr. Menem his reputation as a mufa. Updating the list of mufa-related mishaps, some of them quite tragic, has become a national pastime.
And when juries refused to convict users for their seemingly harmless pastime, state legislatures abandoned tough user laws.
For many mutual fund investors, that's a favorite pastime. Entranced by the stellar long-term results of such funds as Templeton Growth and Fidelity Magellan, these investors try to pinpoint who will be the next star stock-picker.
Politics is not my favorite pastime." Mecham ran for governor five times before being elected in 1986.

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