"It's part of the problem of the entertainment and tourist industry that you are so dependent upon a buoyant economy, because one of the first things that people cut is their discretionary leisure spending."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Poetry is not, that is to say, a leisure class activity.

这就是说，诗歌不是小资阶层的活动。

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What is work and leisure now in a society where you don't have to produce everything for yourself?

在这个社会你不用为自己生产一切,工作和闲暇又意味着什么呢

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Significantly, this picture of Yeats as King Goll was used as an illustration for his first appearance in an English periodical a magazine of art and ideas called The Leisure Hour.

叶芝扮作郭尔王的这幅画,首先出现在一份英国艺术和思想,期刊休闲时刻上，作为他首次,公开亮相，这很重要。

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Obviously with this sort of partitioning of behavior, and activities, and effort, there's not a lot of time leftover for leisure, for development of new technologies and things like this.

显然,采用这样一种,行为,活动及精力的分配方式,自然不会剩下很多时间,用来娱乐,发展技术和改革创新

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