Ancient Greeks thought of an eclipse as a time when the sun abandoned the earth.

古老的希腊人认为当太阳抛弃地球的时候就会发生日食和月食的现象。

Though many see Christmas as a time of generosity and cheer, others see waste.

尽管许多人认为圣诞节是慷慨送礼，营造幸福氛围的日子，但也有人认为圣诞节送礼就是一种浪费。

Active procrastination, on the other hand, can be thought of as a time management strategy.

另一方面，主动拖延可以被认为是一种时间管理策略。

These people may use the New Year as a time to turn over a new leaf!

这些人可能会在新的一年里翻开新的一页！

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit has slammed Israel's violent policies against the Palestinians as " a time bomb" .

阿拉伯联盟秘书长艾哈迈德·阿布尔-盖特抨击以色列对巴勒斯坦人的暴力政策是“定时炸弹”。

But its legacy as a time waster remains intact.

但它作为浪费时间的遗产仍然完好无损。

Humans have long seen death as a time for squaring up old debts.

长期以来，人类一直将死亡视为偿还旧债的时机。

I think the idea of an office as a time and place completely goes away.

我认为办公室作为时间和地点的想法完全消失了。

So it’s often overlooked as a time of primitive and boring creatures.

所以它经常被忽视为原始而无聊的生物时代。

" So you think that just as a time goes to pieces its houses ought to go too" ?

“所以你认为随着时间的流逝，它的房子也应该消失”？

Many people use the start of a new year as a time to try something new or change something about themselves.

许多人会在新年之际试着尝试新事物或是改变和自己的某些事情。

And I remember that as a time of freedom, often perhaps a bit solitary, but great excitement of discovery and exploration.

我记得那是一个自由的时代，常常可能会有点孤独，但却充满了发现和探索的兴奋。

Others may feel they need to completely change everything. These people may use the New Year as a time to turn over a new leaf!

其他人也许觉得他们需要彻底改变自己的一切。这些人也许会利用新年这个时机来翻开人生的新篇章（turn over a new leaf）！

So much so that we are experiencing what Ashley Whillans of the Harvard Business School, the lead author of the study, describes as a time famine.

这种感觉非常普遍，我们的这种状态，被该研究的首席作者、哈佛商学院的阿什莉·威兰斯称之为“时间饥荒”。

Despite the shock of his career derailment, Bush says he's come to be grateful for the fallout, using his forced hiatus as a time of self-reflection.

尽管事业脱轨让他感到震惊，但布什说，他已经开始对这件事的后果心存感激，他把自己被迫中断的时间作为一段自我反省的时间。

Van Gogh’s vision of night... as a star-filled sky, has been preceded by another - night as a time of release, when the day’s work is done.

梵高眼中的夜晚… … 满天的繁星，要美于他之前的作品，那是一天工作结束后，宁静的夜晚。

The average time in which children are ready to replace parents is reckoned at one third of a century or at thirty years as a time measure.

孩子准备好取代父母的平均时间被认为是三分之一个世纪或三十年作为时间衡量标准。

Other people think of the apocalypse as a time when perhaps humans will destroy the natural environment, maybe with a nuclear war that will damage the Earth.

其他人认为世界末日是一个人类可能会破坏自然环境的时代，也许是一场破坏地球的核战争。

There as a time when I used to think to myself, I don't wanna make it to 100, but now I really wanna see what the other side of 100 looks like.

- 曾经有一段时间我自己想，我不想达到 100， 但现在我真的很想看看 100 的另一面是什么样子。

However, it has a particular association for high school and college students, who see this as a time for them to travel without their families and to basically go and party somewhere, typically where it's warm.

然而，它与高中生和大学生有着特殊的联系，他们认为这是一个让他们不带家人去旅行的时间， 基本上是去某个地方聚会， 通常是温暖的地方。