To the Old World of art, Europe, where the veterans of modernism, Salvador Dali, Picasso, were still pottering around to ever less effect.

而那个有着众多现代主义高手，如萨尔瓦多，达利，毕加索等人的欧洲的旧的艺术圈子，仍然在影响力日渐衰微的路上徘徊。

YOU remember old Neave, of course? Little Humphrey Neave, I mean. We used to see him pottering about Rome years ago.

你还记得老尼夫吗？小汉弗莱·尼夫，我是说。几年前我们经常看到他在罗马闲逛。

Inger was up, pottering about half-dressed—she had milked the cow and the goats, as it might have been just an ordinary day.

英格起床了，没穿衣服就东倒西歪——她已经给牛和山羊挤奶了，就好像这只是平常的一天一样。

Bennett's world is one in which women stay at home, tea is made by servants and people entertain themselves by playing cards and " pottering" .

在本涅特的世界里，女人待在家里，茶水由佣人泡好，人们通过打牌和“闲逛”来娱乐自己。

" That the way you manage a farm, " he asked scornfully, " pottering about up in the hills looking for a fortune" ?

“那是你管理农场的方式， ” 他轻蔑地问道， “在山上闲逛寻找财富” ？

Half the world was free to sit back and enjoy itself this sunny afternoon, but he had to spend it pottering about asking questions that led nowhere.

半个世界都可以自由自在地坐下来享受自己， 但他不得不把时间花在陶艺上， 问一些毫无意义的问题。