2fart about/aroundphrasal verbphr v informalLAZYto waste time not doing very much 浪费时间;闲荡
Stop farting around and get on with your work!
别瞎混了,干你的活去!
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fart about/around• Amid much ritual and farting about, the doc and the daftraverspronounced rock dead.• I've farted around too much, that's the triste truth.
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fart• What would they do if she farted?• Gleeson farted and bared more of his teeth at Marcus.• I've farted around too much, that's the triste truth.• Marie: Yeah, we think he farted around.• So the train bumps and farts its way along the tracks.• Or mentionfarting, or something.• By most people's standards Marilyn Monroe was fairly uninhibited; bathing infrequently, and belching and farting with carefreeabandon.
1.[countableC] not politeHBH an act of making air come out of your bowels 放屁
2.old fartinformalSTUPID/NOT INTELLIGENT a stupid and uninteresting older person 老东西〔指愚蠢无趣的年长者〕
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old fart• Soho, meanwhile, enthuse and make me feel like a miserableold fart.• The old fart had served his purpose.
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fart• My old man said be a Swansea fan but I said bog-off, cobblers you're a fart!• A fart is not an atombomb...• So he unbuckled his belt and squatted again, explodingfarts and twisted guts.• Soho, meanwhile, enthuse and make me feel like a miserable old fart.• The old fart had served his purpose.• No, the idea is to open it without so much as a nun's fart.• The coachesstunk of coal smoke and rationedtobacco and rationed booze and the farts of people eating wartime food.