beyond being part of the american passion for mobility, the road trip is a quest, less a search for pleasure than an act of exploration, not just of the land but also of the self.
i prefer paperback or hardback books for pleasure reading but, for research, i prefer a device with access to the internet.
娱乐性阅读时我更喜欢平装或者精装的纸质书,但如果是做研究,我更喜欢可以连入互联网的设备。
from that time to the present, sails have been used only for pleasure and sporting boats.
从那时起到现在,帆船的用途就仅限于娱乐和体育用船了。
「shopping is often for pleasure with the potential to increase psychological wellbeing,」 they conclude.
因此就得出这一结论:「购物通常是为了娱乐,同时也会让人们保持心理健康。」
reading for pleasure takes our mind of our problems, and doing this can help us to gain perspective.
快乐阅读可以把我们的视线从现实的烦恼中转移,这样做可以帮助我们获得全新的视角。
one, though, was for work (very long and quite bad) and only one of them for pleasure (very short and very good).
尽管其中之一是用于工作的(很长又相当差),另外的一本书是为了取乐(很短,也很不差)。
by all accounts mr franzen has dutifully sublimated any desire for pleasure in the real world in order to create stories about flawed families in a fictional one.