2.sailing is her favorite pastime; his main pastime is gambling; he counts reading among his interests; they criticized the boy for his limited interests.
航海是她喜欢的消遣；他的主要消遣是赌博。
3.As it is more important that all college students should play tennis or football with indifferent skill than that a college should produce a few champion athletes or football players for the national contests, so it is also more important that all children and all grown-ups should be able to create something of their own as their pastime than that the nation should produce a Rodin.
每个大学生都有打网球或踢足球的平凡技术，是比大学产生几个可以参加全国比赛的体育选手或足球选手更为重要的，同样地，每个儿童和成人都能够自创一些东西以为消遣，是比一个国家产生一个罗丹(Rodin)更加重要的。
4.Top 3: His favorite pastime is playing golf.
（他最喜欢的消遣是打高尔夫球。）
5.For some it is a career, for others a pastime.
对有些人来讲，它是一项职业，对其他人来说，它却是一个消遣方式。
6.Crystal gazing was a popular pastime in the Victorian era, together with palmistry and astrology, and it involved elaborate rituals for cleaning the crystal ball and for conducting crystal-gazing sessions, which are said to work best when the Sun is at its northernmost declination.
在维多利亚女王时代水晶凝视加上相手术和占星术是大受欢迎的娱乐消遣,而它跟清洁水晶球和管理操作水晶繁琐冗长的宗教仪式有关系,管理操作水晶即凝视聚会据说太阳处于最往北偏的位置时候举行最合适。
7.Such form of pastime seems to prove him sincere.
从那种娱乐的形式看来，好象可以证明他的不忠实。
8.freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity.
自由地选择娱乐或享受的活动。
9.That is why I regard it as so important that in China painting is essentially the pastime of a scholar and not of a professional artist.
为了这个缘故，我觉得这种自然发生的情感非常重要，中国的绘画根本是学者的消遣，而不是职业艺术家的消遣。
