There were some men and women lounging about (the street).
有几个男女在闲逛街道。
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The casual wanderer could see as he passed a polished array of office fixtures, much frosted glass, clerks hard at work, and genteel businessmen in “nobby” suits and clean linen lounging about or sitting in groups.
If I wanted to lounge about , I could have done it in my garden.
如果我想消磨时光,我的花园就可以满足我。
属类:英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org
Phrase
1. Verb. Be lazy or idle. “Her son is just bumming around all day”
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)“... to lounge about , lie idly about without sleeping ; Westerwald lomen, lunzen, to lie in bed out of season ; Bav. lunzen, ...”
2. Music (1899)“And so disguised they return to the stage and lounge about in everybody’s way, watching the erection of the set for the first act, and the distribution of ...”
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)“The older sense was prob, to ’ doze,’ to sleep, hence to brood over the fire, to lounge about . It appears to be a mere derivative of lull, ...”