Maybe passing time on a bus, for example.

比如说可能是在公交车上的时间。

Oh, just passing the time. And proving a point.

纯粹打发一下时间。同时证明一个观点。

So waiting is just staying in a place and passing the time.

所以等待就是呆在一个地方，消磨时间。

Waiting is passing the time, but when we expect something, we think it's probable.

等待是消磨时间，但当我们期待某事时，我们会认为它很有可能。

" Do just smell! What an odour" ! he remarked, passing it under her nose several times.

" 闻闻看，多香啊！" 他把篮子送到她鼻子底下，一连送了几回，还这样说。

Oh, I've been passing the time reading.

我读读书 打发时间。

But good job in passing the second time.

但第二次还是顺利通过了。

Are you just passing time using small talk as a form of entertainment?

您是否只是将闲聊作为一种娱乐形式来消磨时间？

The cheerful merchant evidently sympathized with Merchant Smelkoff's manner of passing his time.

开朗的商人显然很同情商人 Smelkoff 打发时间的方式。

As he ate, Liao became lost in the moment, unaware of the passing time.

一边吃着，一边沉浸在瞬间，不知道时间的流逝。

Hang out has been used as a verb for passing the time since at least the 1830s.

至少从 1830 年代开始， Hang out 就被用作打发时间的动词。

I hear a lot of people make that mistake and go in underprepared. But good job in passing the second time.

我听说很多人都犯了这样的错误，准备不足。但是第二次通过的很好。

For her, however, that solitary rite lacked all sensuality and was simply a way of passing the time until she was hungry.

然而，对她来说，这种孤独的仪式缺乏所有的感官享受，只是一种消磨时间的方式，直到她饿了。

A reporter wrote: Governor Dewey is acting like a man who has already been elected and is only passing time, waiting to take office.

“州长杜威的表现就像是已经当选，只是在等待上任。”

Yes - it's getting absorbed; so absorbed that you lose track of time - become so occupied with something that you are unaware of the passing time.

是的，变得专注；如此专注以至于你忘记了时间——变得如此忙于某事以至于你没有意识到时间的流逝。

Dewey's speeches were " safe." One reporter wrote that Dewey was acting like a man who had already been elected and was only passing time, waiting to take office.

杜威的演讲听起来很“安全”。一位记者写道，杜威的行为就像一个已经当选的人，只是在等待就职。

While he must remain in isolation until he tests negative for the virus on three consecutive days, he is passing the time by pacing back and forth in his room.

在他继续隔离直至连续三天的病毒检测呈阴性期间，他只能在房间里来回踱步打发时间。

No, no, no, I'm not annoyed..... Although I am surprised to learn that she entertains notions of passing her time at drawing-room receptions and taking carriage rides in the park.

不不，没有，不过她居然愿意靠在客厅接待客人和坐马车去公园打发时间，是让我有些惊讶。

It's nice to be part of something that matters to people more than just passing time, which by the way, things that pass time matter and are important, too.

能够成为对人们来说比打发时间更重要的事情的一部分真是太好了，顺便说一句， 打发时间的事情很重要， 而且也很重要。

A lot of small talk, in terms of passing the time of day, doesn't seem to be very directed but seductive people are actually using small talk in a particular way.

很多闲聊， 就打发时间而言，似乎不是很直接，但诱人的人实际上是以特定的方式使用闲聊。