vacant hours 中文意思是什麼
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The two youngest of the family, catherine and lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions ; their minds were more vacant than their sisters, and when nothing better offered, a walk to meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening ; and however bare of news the country in general might be, they always contrived to learn some from their aunt
兩個最小的妹妹咖苔琳和麗迪雅特別傾心於這方面，她們比姐姐們心事要少得多，每當沒有更好的消遣辦法時，就必定到麥里屯走一遭，消遣消遣美好的晨光，並且晚上也就有了談助。盡管這村子里通常沒有什麼新聞可以打聽，她們還老是千方百計地從她們姨媽那兒打聽到一些。 -
They were doubtlessly the animating principle of many hours that superficially seemed vacant.
在表面看來無所事事的許多時刻中，它們無疑是活躍的因素。 -
Whether from commiseration for a woman of so miserable a destiny ; or from the morbid curiosity that gives a fictitious value even to common or worthless things ; or by whatever other intangible circumstance was then, as now, sufficient to bestow, on some persons, what others might seek in vain ; or because hester really filled a gap which must otherwise have remained vacant ; it is certain that she had ready and fairly requited employment for as many hours as she saw fit to occupy with her needle
或許是出於對這位如此命苦的女人的憐憫；或許是出於對平淡無奇的事情也要故弄玄虛的少見多怪；或許是出於某種難以解釋的原因? ?這在當時和今天都是有的? ?某些人苦求不得的、別人卻可予取予奪、或許是因為海絲特確實填補了原先的一項空白；不管是什麼原因吧，反正求她做針線的活路源源不斷，只要她樂意于多少鐘點，總有很不錯的收入。 -
There are others to whom idleness dictates another expedient, by which life may be passed unprofitably away without the tediousness of many vacant hours
對于其他一些人來說，懶散還有另一種表現形式，時光縱然白白流逝，而他們並沒有因為許多小時沒有做什麼而感到無聊乏味。 -
" when my brother left us yesterday, he imagined that the business which took him to london, might be concluded in three or four days, but as we are certain it cannot be so, and at the same time convinced that when charles gets to town he will be in no hurry to leave it again, we have determined on following him thither, that he may not be obliged to spend his vacant hours in a comfortless hotel
讓我念給你聽吧：我哥哥昨天和我們告別的時候，還以為他這次上倫敦去，只要三四天就可以把事情辦好可是我們認為辦不到，同時我們相信，查爾斯一進了城，決不肯馬上就走，因此我們決計追蹤前去，免得他冷冷清清住在旅館里受罪。
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