"We wanted to get a little more hands on knowledge because our school wasn't really offering those kinds of courses or classes, so we wanted to not just sit around and read a book but actually do something,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

He used to bring people in to sit around his deathbed talking about various matters with him.

他叫人来他到他的病榻前,和他进行各种各样的讨论。

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attracts a lot of people to come and sit down, and yeah, look around.

这里吸引了很多人，坐下，四处看看。

皮卡迪利的公司员工 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That is to say, plays, in which various characters sit around or stand around and argue about philosophical positions.

即,以戏剧为表现方式,其间各种人物悠闲地或坐或站,集聚一块儿,探讨各种哲学观点

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He jumped from table to table, eating standing up--he didn't like to sit down very much, his back hurt--; or walking around.

在不同的桌子间窜来窜去,站着吃东西,他不怎么喜欢坐着,因为长年背痛,或者在宴席间四处走动

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Yeah, this is not a bad time for me to remind you that in one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates says the Greeks sit like frogs around a pond and that pond is the Aegean Sea.

下面引用一下,柏拉图记录的一段对话,苏格拉底说希腊地形,就像一群青蛙围着一个池塘,而那池塘就是爱琴海

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while we read it, I will go through the pages together, they all sit around the table, look at the pictures and talk to her.

当我们读这本书的时候，我会一点一点地讲，孩子们都做在桌边，看着图片，跟她说话。

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But I would choose to sit down for these particular projects right around midnight so that when I woke up my program was giving me the results I wanted.

我可能会,为了这些特殊的项目一直等到半夜,这样我醒来时,程序就能给我想要的结果。

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