断网时打发时间的十大妙招

 　　[1]Pretended to work假装在工作

　　"Well, you could just sit at your desk and go to sleep with a pen in your hand. "

　　额， 只能坐在办公椅上，手里拿着一支笔打盹。

　　[2] Searched for cat pictures ... but not online

　　找猫咪的图片，但不是在网上搜

　　"I flipped¹ through magazines looking for funny pictures of cats doing funny things."

　　我翻翻杂志，挑那些滑稽猫咪的图片。

　　[3] Daydream²做白日梦

　　"Honestly? Stare out of the window and daydream. I had so many more good ideas back then."

　　老实说，(无聊时)就凝视着窗外幻想。回到办公室后我会文思泉涌。

　　[4] Sent prank³ faxes to other offices向其他办公室发恶作剧传真

　　"We'd send a filthy⁴

　　fax to some of the other companies. And receive some of the filthiest⁵ jokes and drawings back. Some of them ended up on the wall in the copy room."

　　我们给其他公司发污秽照片，接着会收到黄色笑话或者图片。最终有些就被贴在复印室了。

　　[5] Played Minesweeper and Solitaire扫雷和纸牌游戏

　　"There was no internet but thanks to Windows 95, I played Solitaire and Minesweeper all day long."

　　虽然不能上网，但幸亏Windows 95里我还可以玩扫雷和纸牌游戏，这个可以耗掉一整天。

　　[6] Invented and Played Office Games自创办公室游戏

　　We spent many hours playing 'shelf-ball。

　　我们会花很多时间玩一种叫做“架子球”的游戏。

　　Equipment:

　　所需器材：

　　- Tennis Ball

　　网球

　　- Mailboxes

　　邮箱盒子

　　Rules:游戏规则

　　- The ball must bounce

　　球必须得弹起来

　　- You get 1 point for making it in any mailbox

　　球落到任意邮箱里，得1分。

　　- You get 2 points for making it in a corner mailbox

　　落到角落的盒子里，得2分。

　　- You lose 1 point for making it in your boss' or opponent's mailbox

　　落到老板或者对手的盒子里，扣1分。

　　- You get 3 points for making it in your own mailbox

　　落到自己的邮箱里，得3分。

　　- First person to get 5 points wins"

　　最先积满5分者获胜。

　　[7] Read junk mail

　　查看垃圾邮件

　　"I talk to my older co-workers about this a lot. You know all that mail you get -- magazines, trade publications, seminar sign ups, etc. -- that you just throw in the trash every day? Before the internet you would sit around and read that s--t."

　　我常和老员工谈起这个。经常会收到有关杂志、商业报刊、研讨会申请等等的垃圾邮件。你都丢到垃圾筒了？断网无所事事时，你可以看看这些邮件。

　　[8] Took long lunches

　　延长中餐时间

　　[9] Took more smoke breaks

　　多抽几根烟休息下

　　[10] Went home early

　　提前下班回家

1 flipped   

轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 )； 按（开关）； 快速翻转； 急挥

参考例句：

• The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。
• The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。

2 daydream   

v.做白日梦，幻想

参考例句：

• Boys and girls daydream about what they want to be.孩子们遐想着他们将来要干什么。
• He drifted off into another daydream.他飘飘然又做了一个白日梦。

3 prank   

n.开玩笑，恶作剧；v.装饰；打扮；炫耀自己

参考例句：

• It was thought that the fire alarm had been set off as a prank.人们认为火警报警器响是个恶作剧。
• The dean was ranking the boys for pulling the prank.系主任正在惩罚那些恶作剧的男学生。

4 filthy   

adj.卑劣的；恶劣的，肮脏的

参考例句：

• The whole river has been fouled up with filthy waste from factories.整条河都被工厂的污秽废物污染了。
• You really should throw out that filthy old sofa and get a new one.你真的应该扔掉那张肮脏的旧沙发，然后再去买张新的。

5 filthiest   

filthy（肮脏的，污秽的）的最高级形式

参考例句：

• He had got to plunge into the filthiest of filth. 他得投到最最肮脏的污秽中去。 来自英汉文学
• I want you to come with me, into the filthiest streets of Primordium. 我要你跟我一起去普利摩顿最阴暗的街道看一看。 来自互联网