You know, here he is batting questions away for three, four hours.

你知道，他花了三四个小时回答问题。

I had been having trouble sleeping, and had found that actually getting up was marginally preferable to lying in my bed batting away the swirling mess of my thoughts.

我一直难以入睡，并且发现实际上起床比躺在床上驱散思绪的混乱要好一些。