He lazed away the whole afternoon.

他懒散地混过了整个下午。

He lazed away in the sun.

他一直懒懒散散地在太阳下逛荡。

We lazed away the whole week.

我们把整周时间就这样懒懒散散地打发过去了。

An honest and hard-working sort, the boy monk was never negligent at work and never lazed

小和尚老实巴交,吃苦耐劳,不耍滑头。

Lazed the afternoon away in a hammock.

在吊床中懒散地打发了一下午时光

||1: Mr Hollis is adept at evoking the atmosphere of the time, and at negotiating the complicated friendships and squabbles between these poets. ||2: But it is when Thomas meets Robert Frost, a “Yankee” poet determined to be published in Britain that his book comes to life. ||3: It was Frost—a stocky, quick-tempered figure—who persuaded Thomas to write poems, and who believed that “words exist in the mouth, not in books”. ||4: Once Thomas decided to write verse, he did so quickly. ||5: Spurred on by Frost, and by the oncoming threat of war, at one point he wrote nearly a poem a day, including his much loved “Adlestrop” with its “lazed , heat-filled atmosphere…of that last summer before the war”. ||6: Mr Hollis re-creates Thomas’s process of writing by comparing the differing drafts of his poems, giving life to his process of composition, and charting the correspondence between Thomas and Frost once the latter had moved back to America.

||1:霍利斯擅长营造时代氛围，也擅长描写那些诗人之间复杂的友谊和矛盾。||2:但这本书真正生动的部分是在托马斯遇到罗伯特·弗罗斯特（一位决心在英国发表诗作的“美国佬”诗人）之后。||3:正是这位身材敦实、脾气急躁的弗罗斯特劝说托马斯走上诗歌创作道路的，他还认为“语言存在于口齿之间，而不是在书本里面”。||4:一旦托马斯决定写诗了，他很快就开始了创作。||5:受到了弗罗斯特的鞭策，战争的威胁又隐隐逼近，曾经有段时间他几乎每天就写出一首诗——其中就有那首广为人们称道的《艾德稠普》，诗中描写了“战争爆发前的最后一个夏天……那慵懒、闷热的空气”。||6:霍利斯比较了托马斯不同的诗稿，为这位诗人的创作过程赋予了生命，并记录了弗罗斯特回到美国后两人的通信情况。通过这些途径，霍利斯重现了托马斯的写作历程。