" I'm sorry. What do you amuse yourself with? "

“我为你难过。你自个儿找些什么解闷呢？”

I don't amuse myself with balderdash. Two and five make seven.

我不用闲聊来娱乐自己。二加五得七.

B. To amuse the readers with a funny story.

B. 用一个有趣的故事逗读者。

Hallward amused himself with watching the faces in the pit.

霍尔沃德看着坑里的脸自娱自乐。

He seems to sport with language, to amuse himself with new discovery of its resources.

他似乎以语言为乐，以新发现的语言资源为乐。

They went to the Indian room and amused themselves with the ivory elephants.

他们去了印第安人房间，和象牙大象一起玩耍。

But as you do not seem inclined to sleep, shall I endeavour to amuse you with my Harp'?

但既然你似乎不想睡觉， 我要努力用我的竖琴逗你开心吗？

Theodore amused himself with retailing to the credulous Nuns for truths all the strange stories which his imagination could invent.

西奥多自娱自乐地向轻信的修女们兜售他的想象力所能发明的所有奇怪的故事， 以求真相。

Though his father rarely saw him when he was awake, he was given all sorts of wonderful things to amuse himself with.

虽然他的父亲在他醒着的时候很少见到他，但他得到了各种美好的东西来取乐。

" A man might see good arguments for changing once, and not see them for changing again, " said Lydgate, amused with the decisive old lady.

利德盖特说，被果断的老太太逗乐了。

The fairy queen's yellow curls reminded her of Amy, and between the acts she amused herself with wondering what her sister would do to make her 'sorry for it'.

那个仙后的黄色鬈发使她想起了艾米；在幕间休息时，她心中猜想着她的妹妹究竟将用什么方法使她“为此而后悔”。

She took a fancy to Mademoiselle and amused her very much with odd stories of her life in France when Amy sat with her while she got up Madame's laces.

她很喜欢小姐，当艾米坐在她身边整理夫人的花边时，她就讲在法国时生活中的离奇故事，让艾米听了很快活。

This led me to remember what I could of LYCIDAS and to amuse myself with guessing which word it could have been that Milton had altered, and why.

这让我想起了我能记住的 LYCIDAS 并猜测弥尔顿可能改变了哪个词，以及为什么。

Between the acts, McCarren amused him with anecdotes about the audience: he knew every one by sight, and could lift the curtain from every physiognomy. Granice listened indulgently.

在幕间，麦卡伦用关于观众的轶事逗他开心：他认识每一个人，并且可以揭开每一个相貌的帷幕。格蕾丝听得津津有味。

" If you take it as badly as you did measles and whooping cough, it will go hard with you, old fellow, " said Steve, much amused with the fancy.

“如果你把它当成麻疹和百日咳那样严重，老伙计，你会很难受的，”史蒂夫说，被这种幻想逗乐了。

" Although I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasion, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible. "

“有时候我也自己跟自己打趣，预先想好一些很好的小恭维话，平常有机会就拿来应用，不过临说的时候，总是要装出是自然流露出来的。”

Hence Yeobright sometimes sang to himself, and when obliged to accompany Humphrey in search of brambles for faggot-bonds he would amuse his companion with sketches of Parisian life and character, and so while away the time.

因此，约布赖特有时会自个儿唱起歌来，他跟汉弗莱去寻找捆扎荆柴的藤条时，常常讲些巴黎的生活和特色，自娱自乐，打发时间。

They are quite at home with me, tell me everything; and I am particularly amused with observing their tempers, and the simplicity of their behaviour, when some of the other village children are assembled with them.

他们对我很客气，什么都告诉我；当其他一些村里的孩子和他们聚在一起时，我特别喜欢观察他们的脾气和他们的简单行为。

I am amused with these puppets, or, rather, I am myself one of them: but, when I sometimes grasp my neighbour's hand, I feel that it is not natural; and I withdraw mine with a shudder.

我被这些木偶逗乐了， 或者更确切地说，我自己就是其中之一：但是， 当我有时抓住邻居的手时， 我觉得这不自然；我不寒而栗地撤回了我的。

Another friend, Carrick Venn, a student of medicine whom irremediable ill-health had kept from the practice of his profession, amused his leisure with experiments in physics, for the exercise of which he had set up a simple laboratory.

另一位朋友卡里克·维恩 (Carrick Venn) 是一名医学生，由于无法治愈的疾病而无法从事他的职业，他用物理实验来消遣自己的空闲时间，为此他建立了一个简单的实验室。