For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

II Only thin smoke without flame ; From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass.

只有没有火焰的烟,从茅草堆中冒出;,然而这还是会照样向前,即使朝代更迭。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

When you come home tonight, you see your friend once again sitting on the couch eating potato chips.

今晚你回家的时候，你又见到她像往常一样吃着薯片，陷在沙发里。

Do you ever课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A British astronomer named John Couch Adams had also predicted Neptune's position in space.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

A Freudian analysis, of course, is lying on a couch; does not see their therapist; their therapist is very nondirective.

在精神分析取向的心理治疗中，来访者躺在沙发上;,看不到他们的心理治疗师;,而心理治疗师也不会有任何暗示性的话语。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Robert Armstrong, an artist from California, developed the term couch potato in nineteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Iron oxide. And, in fact, you can even couch things.

氧化铁，实际上，你能换个角度。

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His response came up just short of saying he would have made the case for regime change, but he did say he would have had to couch his arguments for British involvement differently.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

So going to an art museum or being a couch potato and swilling beer, watching television at home.

是去美术馆还是做个沙发土豆,宅在家边吃薯条喝啤酒，边看电视。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And everyday when you come home from work your roommate is sitting on the couch eating potato chips.

每天你下班回家，你的室友总是窝在沙发里吃薯片。

Do you ever课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Last thing I remember, I left it on the couch.

我最后记得的是，我把它放在沙发上了。

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So, on 169, he says to Franny as she's sniveling on the couch: "God almighty, Franny," he said.

在169页，当弗兰尼躺在沙发上时，他说：,全能的上帝，弗兰尼。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Sometimes, Mill agrees, we might succumb to the temptation to do the latter, to be couch potatoes.

穆勒同意，我们有时会无法抵挡后者的诱惑,选择后者，做沙发土豆。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Marylou was jumping off the couch.

玛丽露从沙发上跳下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选