in the past, she「s played 30 games of solitaire before typing a first sentence.
过去,她在打下第一句话之前,会玩上30次纸牌游戏。
in alabama, computer solitaire has one advantage: anyone buying a deck of playing cards there must pay a 10-cent tax.
在阿拉巴马州,网上打牌也许更节省:那里的人买一副扑克牌都要交10美分的税。
sometimes, i’m creating a new project, or improving myself somehow … but sometimes i just find interesting stuff to read online or find a cool solitaire game to play.
有时,我正在创建一个新项目,或者自己水平得到提高,但是有时我发现我只对上网浏览或者单机游戏感兴趣。
worse yet, when researchers asked the participants to remember what they had eaten for lunch, those who had been playing solitaire had a much harder time remembering what they had consumed.
更糟糕的是,当研究人员要参与者回想他们午餐吃了什么时,玩纸牌的人要花长得多的时间才能想起来。
the next seismic event in the electronic gaming, says dyson, came in 1990 when microsoft bundled the classic card game solitaire with windows 3.0.
游戏界下一个重大事件发生在1900年,微软将经典纸牌游戏”纸牌“与windows3.0系统捆绑。
when you」re playing minesweeper, solitaire or angry birds, it「s a little difficult to convince yourself that you」re being productive.
当你在扫雷、纸牌或者愤怒小鸟游戏时,你自己都无法相信自己正在从事创造性的工作。
instead of a cigarette break at work, play a game of solitaire on your computer.
工作休息时,在您的计算机上玩单人纸牌游戏代替抽烟。
people play billions of hours of solitaire each year, he says, but it took only 20m man-hours to build the panama canal.
他说道,全人类每年在单人纸牌上要花上数十亿小时的时间,但建造巴拿马运河只要花上两千万人工时。
the ruling came after mayor michael bloomberg fired a worker in the city「s legislative office in albany earlier this year after he saw the man playing a game of solitaire on his computer.
今年早些时候,纽约市长迈克尔·布隆伯格解雇了该市立法办公室的一名职员,因为此人工作时竟在电脑上玩纸牌游戏。
a week before valentine」s day, the one-carat round solitaire diamond ring set in 14k white gold ($1,988) is out of stock on wal-mart.com.
情人节的前一个星期,镶有一克拉圆形纸牌鉆石的14k白金戒指在沃尔玛的网站上已经脱销。
the town of solitaire has a single digit population and is located in the middle of the desert. but the local bakery produces superb apple strudel, a hangover from previous german colonisers.
产自纳米比亚,solitaire镇人口很少,而且在大漠腹地,但是当地的苹果馅饼烘培手艺却很精湛,这是德国殖民者留给他们的遗产。
some of us are addicted to solitaire or minesweeper, while others enjoy virtual action sports games or multi-player adventure games.
有人沉溺纸牌或者扫雷,有人喜欢虚拟体育游戏或者多人冒险游戏。
they just couldn't find any besides solitaire and minesweeper that they enjoyed in the game marketplace at that time.
在那时他们除了纸牌游戏和扫雷游戏什么也没得玩。
my boss goes into his office, and i set to work playing solitaire on my computer.
我老板回到他的办公室,然后我开始在电脑上努力接龙。