They could be playing an online game or chatting with their friends while working on their homework.

他们可能边玩网络游戏边与朋友们聊天当做作业的时候。

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If they aren’t working overtime and the TV won’t work, their only amusement is chatting with roommates or an early bedtime.

假如不超长时间工作或者看电视，她们唯一的娱乐就是和室友聊天，或者早早睡觉。

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At a reception in an American college, a newly arrived Chinese scholar was chatting with the hostess, who was an old friend.

一位中国学者刚到美国，到一所大学去参加招待会。女主人是他的老朋友。

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Whether it is for use in an emergency, chatting to your friends or keeping in touch with the office, few can deny the benefits.

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One passage describes how Mr Clinton usually receptive to Miss Lewinsky's attentions when chatting on the phone with congressmen shunted her aside for nearly half an hour for a telephone call from a real potentate: Alfonso Fanjul.

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This in turn enabled her to act as though she were utterly innocent, even when claiming to be the cousin of an imprisoned Scottish captain, or chatting to a Gestapo officer with 200lb of illegal pork in her suitcase.

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