| 释义 |
‖ pour passer le temps, phr.|pur pase lə tɑ̃|
[Fr.]
To pass the time; to amuse oneself.
1681Otway Souldiers Fortune i. i. 3 Some little inconsiderable questions pour posser [sic] le temps. 1777P. Thicknesse Year's Journey II. lii. 153 The gay part of the French women love none, but receive all, pour passer le tems. 1823Scott Quentin D. I. p. xxiv, Although he admitted he read them pour passer le temps, yet..it was not without execrating the tendency. 1846Geo. Eliot Let. 5 Nov. (1954) I. 225, I wanted some kind of worship pour passer le temps. 1889E. Dowson Let. 1 Apr. (1967) 59, I still scribble occasionally—pour passer le temps, and devote most of my leisure to the French Renaissance. 1895C. M. Yonge Long Vacation xiii. 128 ‘Yet you are helping on this concern.’ ‘True, but partly pour passer le temps.’ 1976M. Birmingham Heat of Sun ix. 158 Cynthia asked if she could go too: ‘Pour passer le temps,’ she said... ‘I love riding in cars at night.’ |