| 1. | I forget these tales cannot divert you .
我倒忘记了这些故事是不能供你消遣的。 |
| 2. | For the first time for many months i could read a book for pleasure .
许多个月来，我第一次能够看一本消遣的书。 |
| 3. | I keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms .
我有一种渴望消遣的强烈欲望，哪怕是一种最简单最朴实的方式。 |
| 4. | In the advanced state of society, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade, what other people pursue as a pastime .
在进步社会内，把别人消遣的事当作职业的人，都是极贫苦的。 |
| 5. | They find they cannot get to the open spaces or the recreation or the beaches which they now have the time to enjoy .
他们现在有时间却发现无法到达宽敞的地方，或消遣的去处，或者海滨湖畔. |
| 6. | They can not get to the open spaces or the recreation or the beaches which they now have the time to enjoy .
他们无法到达宽敞的地方，或消遣的去处，或者海滨湖畔，而这一切他们现在有余暇享受。 |
| 7. | Indeed , it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds .
的确，很可能是那些工作即消遣的人们最需要这种方法，以便使大脑每隔一段时间从工作念头中解脱出来。 |
| 8. | I have neither friends nor books to divert me
我没有朋友或书籍可消遣的。 |
| 9. | At least not much to entertain
起码没有什么可以让我消遣的 |
| 10. | He also had the hardest schedule of business activities of any man i know
作为消遣的书，可以轻松地读而不会有所失。 |
