消磨

• I used to pass whole evening that way .
  以前我总是这样消磨整个黄昏。
• Thus conversing, they wore away the hours .
  他们这样交谈着，消磨时间。
• I can fill the time by spring cleaning the house .
  我能用大扫除来消磨时间。
• The next two days were spent in fruitless parleys .
  其后两日是消磨于毫无结果的谈判中。
• We bought some cheap literature to kill time with .
  我们买了些廉价故事书，好消磨时间。
• We whiled away the time at the airport reading magazines .
  我们在机场阅读杂志消磨时间。
• I recognized these as essentially time wasting devices .
  我知道这主要是消磨时间的办法。
• The guests did not seem to know how to occupy themselves .
  客人们似乎不知道怎样消磨时间。
• He whiled away an hour or two vaguely at clubs .
  他百般无聊地在俱乐部里消磨了一两个钟头。
• You hang around with your old chicago school chums .
  你现在同芝加哥的一些老同学一起消磨时日。