- 1消遣、休閒
A pastime is something you do because you enjoy it, not because you must — a quiet hobby, a game, a way of spending a free afternoon. Reading, fishing, , and watching birds can all be pastimes. The word feels softer and a little older than hobby; you meet it in books and polite talk more than in teenage chat. It comes from the idea of passing the time in a pleasant way. Though actually, a pastime is usually light: you would not normally call a serious job, or a hard sport you train for, your pastime, even if you love it.
core核心畫面
組成From earlier passtime / pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, a copy of French passetemps — “pass time.”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pastimenoun/ˈpæs.taɪm/
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Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
- Chatting is a pleasant pastime.
- Hunting and fishing, the most important employments of mankind in the rude state of society, become in its advanced state their most agreeable amusements, and they pursue for pleasure what they once followed from necessity. In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade what other people pursue as a pastime.
pastimeverb/ˈpæs.taɪm/
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obsoleteTo sport; to amuse oneself.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。