| 单词 | potter around |
| 例句 | "You've been pottering around for the last four thousand years just...gardening?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z De Luca pulls a stands-to-reason face, as if it's common knowledge that Gilmour spends his days pottering around his boat, guitar in hand, waiting for someone to knock on the door and request his services. Vito de Luca of nu-disco hitmakers Aeroplane on becoming a one-man band 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z Only an idiot would choose raging in the dark over, say, pottering around the garden in the light. EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z I was in my early teen years, sulky and gawky and pottering around Swanage on the Dorset coast on what would be the last real family holiday. After Tolkien, get Bored of the Rings 2011-02-08T13:01:04Z I like staying in my house, pottering around and maybe cooking or just laying around reading. Q&A: Heather Graham, actor – ‘When I tell people how much I sleep they are horrified’ 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Sophie loved nothing more than coming here and meeting friends for a coffee or a potter around the shops. Fancy dress by Kate Horsley 2010-12-26T00:05:12Z A few years into my own journalistic career, I remember pottering around the office one day when my phone rang with a familiar voice on the end of the line: “Hi Tim, it’s Louis!” Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z As they potter around the house, they often spout out lyrics from “My Shot,” in which Hamilton’s band of merry men introduce themselves. “Hamilton” is the new “Star Wars”: My sons’ epic love for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Founding Fathers musical 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Now, it’s unlikely that I’ll ever be able just to potter around the shops without the aid of a wheelchair or crutches. Experience: I was hit by a car doing 101mph 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z She sprang out of bed at 4am, pottered around and “did a little social media post” about her podcast, Hustling with Vivica A Fox. Vivica A Fox: 'Black Lives Matter is going to be Trump's demise' 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z But I had no ambition, really; my life was doing nothing, maybe a couple of magic gigs a week at most, and then just pottering around in Bristol. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z Diane Jones was pottering around the house when she was sent a text message telling her to claim her £400 energy discount. Energy discount phishing: Robbed of £25,000 in text scam 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z He was pottering around at home in New Zealand when he suddenly found himself lying on the floor. Rocky Horror's Richard O'Brien: ‘I should be dead. I've had an excessive lifestyle' 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z "He started to potter around and find quite a few cameras that he liked," Dorothy says. The man who owned 3,000 cameras 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Sometimes I spend 10 minutes pottering around; other times it’s four hours of intense, self-directed cartographical research missions. Beyond 'Animal Crossing': What 59 game pros play to de-stress in quarantine 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z "We potter around the garden," she said, which helps keep her husband active. Coping with self -isolation when you have dementia 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Maybe you want or need Ballie, a tennis ball-sized robot, packed full of tech, that will roll after you as you potter around the house? Sex, snoring and endless loo paper: the gadget show catering for your every need 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Ammons, who could control the rate of his unrolling tape by slowing down his writing, liked to potter around. Tommy Pico Filibusters Mortality with Poetry 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Nigella can still draw an audience, Rick Stein continues to potter around on camera but the once steady stream of new food celebs has dried up. From avocados to Instagram: the decade in food 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Mendel Viridi and Mountain’s mobile experiences also offer sanctuaries for players to potter around relatively free from the capitalist logic of production embedded into much of modern life and technology. Gardening games are blossoming in turbulent times 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z I say I find it hard to imagine him pottering around in his slippers, reading for his own amusement. Peter Ackroyd: A secret history – 2,000 years of gay life in London 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Instead of spending his golden years playing golf or pottering around his apartment, Rebus still noses his way into police business. On the case for 30 years with Ian Rankin’s Inspector John Rebus 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z He was in London, thinking about where to take Orbis next, eating his favourite tapas and pottering around Victoria, where his newly refurbished office is based. Intelligence sources vouch for credibility of Russia dossier author 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z "So I was allowed to potter around. You knew everyone." Liverpool's Turner Prize-winning streets - one year on - BBC News 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z In previous Civ games I’d allow my workers to potter around on their own, trusting them to build their own improvements at their own pace. The 30 games we can't wait to play this holiday season 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Just like you like pub quizzes or pottering around an allotment or getting steaming drunk at the weekend. Brave Hamilton should be applauded 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z "I do like to potter around our garden and I still nurture the idea of doing some more wine-making again one day." The hidden lives of those who care 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Gardeners drive lawnmowers as employees potter around on bright orange bicycles. Glass half empty 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Their aims are often clear-cut—find the Higgs, sequence the genome, potter around Mars—but the means of attaining them are anything but. Schumpeter: Titans of innovation 2013-04-25T15:03:50Z Dozens of employees potter around the garden, some in golf carts, wearing navy shorts and light blue polo shirt with Brecqhou insignia. Brecqhou: how windswept eyesore became Barclays' getaway 2012-06-27T16:59:01Z Did I mention that at the mouth of the harbour the Tarifa passed a steam launch pottering around the St. Anthony Light? Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z Burley was a good place for an old retired man who loved to potter around after the partridges; but for one like himself, still in the prime of his life, it had lost its charms. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z I used to potter around my father’s property. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z Between times Si patched belts, or hoed corn, or sat and smoked, Grandfather pottered around the garden, or sat and smoked as he waited for the pond to fill. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z What do ye come pottering around here at midnight for?” Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z On the positive side, we easily get there, potter around Somerset, then back home on one tank. On the road: Peugeot 308 e-HDi 2011-08-05T21:59:03Z For fifteen years she had "pottered around," as old Thompson said, and made her brother's home a pleasant one. The Mystery of the Locks 2011-05-29T02:00:08.800Z The boys found him at the power plant, pottering around, when they told him of their imminent departure. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z "We could have pottered around for a while just for respectability's sake," he said. England's World Cup swamped by Ireland's green tide 2011-03-02T21:40:40Z Mr. Barnes had come to depend on him for an hour or two of pottering around at odd tasks on the farm, and felt that his young helper amply paid for his meals and lodging. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z The Mini, he said, was for pottering around, the Rolls for relaxing and the Ferrari for “zoom.” John Lennon's first car to be auctioned in Paris 2011-01-14T21:25:00Z We led the quiet life, and just pottered around, and saw the shows and so on. H.M.S. —— Perhaps,” he added, hopefully, “Brother Gregorio will be pottering around and will catch your signal.” The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z He pottered around all morning, and in the afternoon decided to ride in to town and see Judge Riley. The Land of Strong Men They make few mistakes, and do not have to potter around. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Scientists began giving serious consideration to the unusual phenomenon, pottering around in the pits, wearing airs of puzzlement. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 Why don’t you do something, instead of pottering around here trying to do chores that aren’t your work, an’ you can’t do right anyway? The Twins of Suffering Creek The chances are the young lady will take to housework like a bear-cub to a syrup keg, and old Marthy will potter around with her flowers and be perfectly happy with the two of them. The Ranch at the Wolverine “Why shouldn’t he look down on that sort of pottering around?” she demanded. That Girl Montana All these things recurred to me as I pottered around through the herds examining side-lines, etc., and looking up the guards. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Old Mrs. Drayton was pottering around the bar preparatory to going to bed. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time He spent almost all his time pottering around his own house, now and again cleaving a few billets of wood; but to all intents and purposes he was hibernating like one of our Labrador bears. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers Sometimes an old one will potter around a thicket, ahead of a slow dog, but his tendency is always to hole. Woodcraft Put on your overalls and go out and potter around among those beloved vegetables of yours. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play Then she could potter around all she liked. Greener Than You Think She sketches and paints in water colors, and botanizes, and looks for bits of stones and rocks which she examines through a glass, and translates French and generally potters around. The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp And never once while thus he pottered around my torn and mangled jowl—not once, while I was being slaughtered, did I let out a single howl! Rippling Rhymes He went down in the kitchen and I'd hear him pottering around. With Those Who Wait You can potter around better there when you're old, don't you think so? While Caroline Was Growing As if he could fool her like that, pottering around among the roses! Judith of Blue Lake Ranch My time was all taken up until eleven o'clock, in ordering and setting the servants at work, righting their wrongs, and pottering around among my large family. At Home with the Jardines And never once while thus he pottered around my torn and mangled jowl—not once, while I was being slaughtered, did I let out a single howl! Rippling Rhymes Sam "pottered around," as he expressed it, making his purchases as deliberately as possible, and neglecting no opportunity to learn what he could, with eyes and ears wide open. Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814 On their return they potter around camp making paddles or snowshoe frames; or they give themselves up to gambling—a vice to which they are rather prone. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure The cook was pottering around his stove, cleaning up his pots and pans. Under Handicap A Novel His self-pitying whine droned on monotonously, but he nevertheless got into his clothes and pottered around the plane by the light of the lantern and the flaring fire Johnny started. Skyrider Once or twice he saw the professor pottering around near the cabin, gathering pieces of bark off fallen trees to help out their scanty supply of dry wood. The Lookout Man "I know it is tiresome for a good player to go pottering around the links with women at his heels, and only suggested a game if you had no other engagements." John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life She walked on fast, now, across the back yard where the hens, just as happy as she was to be on solid ground, pottered around dreamily, their eyes half-shut up. The Brimming Cup She has, at odd times, been pottering around her ideal schemes of government; which Asia in large part satisfied herself that she had found long ago. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Tom had re-entered the power house and was pottering around the machinery. The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border James Rumsey, with just a suspicion of the irritability of talent, accused Fitch of "coming pottering around" his Virginia work-bench and carrying off his ideas, to be afterward developed in Philadelphia. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Hurried as he professed to be, the trail foreman pottered around as if time was worthless, but finally mounted. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings After being gone for an hour he came back and said they had thrown their cattle off the bed-ground up the trail, and were pottering around like as they aimed to move. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories Then he went outside and she heard him pottering around in the rain with Clarissa, undoing the pack and bringing it into the house, and leading the donkey off in the direction of the shed. Madcap "Came up as usual to potter around the old house, I guess, but when he heard about Bard bein' here he changed his mind sudden and went home." Trailin'! He's a fine fellow and all that, but she's not used to a man in the house that potters around the kitchen and the children's food and things like Isadore loves to. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It I'll potter around this evening and build one behind the woodshed. Star-Dust He pulled out drawer after drawer, pottering around like an old bloodhound, and babbling from time to time about Berkeley and his cigarette-case in a way that struck me as perfectly ghastly. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories While the crows were pottering around down there, a mass of gravel fell from one side. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils In pottering around, I visited many of the switchboard stations controlling the submarine mine fields. The Secrets of the German War Office Bandy-legs pottered around the fire for a while, but Max could see how unnaturally he acted. In Camp on the Big Sunflower Then he'd potter around the shop till the box was full. The Belted Seas He is pottering around about something all the time. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 He potters around them so much that, as far as he is concerned, they are as docile as barn-door fowls, and he says he minds a sting no more than a mosquito bite. Nature's Serial Story Franz," she said, "a man like you is wasting his time pottering around a hospital with your evident knowledge of the world and people. The Secrets of the German War Office For an hour he pottered around the barn, and for a long while he sat on the porch under the stars. The Heart of the Hills Apparently, on reaching home, Standish had driven the car to the garage and had pottered around there for some minutes before starting for the house. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story When she arrived back home she pottered around for an hour and a half, feeding her old dog Lizzy and tidying up. Underground He carried the parcels into the next room, and the artist heard him pottering around and humming. Uncle William: the man who was shif'less Guess he wanted to potter around there a bit. By Reef and Palm And then, it's all very splendid, but just think of a—of a gentleman having to potter around among butter and cheese, or mess about in muddy cellars! Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail She's out pottering around somewhere, poor housekeeping slave; and Clara is in the hands of the osteopath, getting the bronchitis pulled and hauled out of her. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) Her father had died, and the old aunt was in seclusion in a nunnery, where she pottered around a garden and knitted endless garments for the poor. Long Live the King! Just potter around in quest of the best steering gear, or try to decide whether you will set up your rigging with old-fashioned lanyards or with turnbuckles, if you want strain of detail. The Cruise of the Snark And you don't have to potter around the cook tent working, either. The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings : or, Making the Start in the Sawdust Life I was pottering around in one of the bazaars in Constantinople. Strictly business: more stories of the four million Ezra, pottering around the tool shed, ambled up with the eyes of a dog that has been sent back home by his master. Cow-Country He was tired of the house, tired of the frozen garden, tired of scolding the slovenly girl who pottered around all day in a boudoir cap and slovenly wrapper. Dangerous Days Furthermore, he was hungry, and he did not propose to lie there and starve while old Cash pottered around the stove. Cabin Fever While pottering around in Italy and Switzerland, they happened, one day, to hear of a monastery in the Swiss Alps that promised something outside of the ordinary tourist-beguiling attractions. Strictly business: more stories of the four million |
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