The results showed that reading was the most popular activity in the United States, followed by watching TV.

调查结果显示，阅读是美国人最喜欢的活动，其次是看电视。

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I often kill time by watching TV.

我经常看电视消遣。

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The old woman often whiles away hours by watching TV.

老妇人常常看几个小时电视消磨时光。

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The brain also needs a "cognitive rest," they say, by restricting activities like video games, texting and watching TV.

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The woman said she gets her news from the Washington Post and by watching TV.

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"By combining watching TV with engaging content, we can change the way audiences are entertained and informed, " said Ron Jacoby, vice president of Connected TV at Yahoo!

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The world is full of examples of people becoming interested in real-life skills or historical events because they learned about it through a video game (or by reading or watching TV).

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