After the dismissal of the cook we had to make our meals ourselves.

打发厨师走后我们只得自已做饭。

We lazed away the summer on the beach.

我们在沙滩上打发了夏天的时光。

I was sent to retrieve the balls from his garden.

我被打发去他的花园捡回球。

I should have told the selectors to shove it.

我本该告诉挑选打发掉。

She sent back her breakfast tray untouched.

她打发人将一盘她一口未动的早餐送回。

He dismissed them with a curt nod.

他只随便点了一下头就他们打发走了。

Orphaned children were consigned to institutions.

孤儿都打发到了福利院。

The boss kissed the other performers off as mere amateurs.

老板认为其他的演员只有业余水平而他们打发掉了。

They would be much better advised to spend their non-productive time more pleasurably.

好建议他们，以更愉悦的方式来打发他们低效率的工作时间。

For this peccadillo he was demoted and sent back to pound the beat.

由于这次过失，他被降了级，又被打发去干徒步巡警了。

"George, I let Mary go yesterday," was not an unfrequent salutation at the dinner table.

“乔治，我昨天玛丽打发了。"这一类谈话在他们家饭桌上以听到。

She wheedled him into going.

她用花言巧语他打发走了。

I had ten hours to wait in Rome, so I whiled away the time wandering around the museums.

我在罗马要等十个小时，只好逛逛博物馆来打发时间。

When we travel from coast to coast, we take a plane to avoid spending tedious days on the train.

当从一个海滨旅行到另一个海滨时，我们乘坐飞机以避免在火车上打发无聊时光。

Are you sending me on a fool’s errand again? The last time you sent me to get tickets, the play wasn’t even on.

你又想让我白忙一场吗？上次你打发我去买票，结果那齣戏根本就没上演。

It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else’s job to help me.

这就像一个英国政府滑稽剧：我被从一个部门打发到另一个部门，每个人都说帮助我是他人的事。

25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

我打发到你们中间的大军队，就是蝗虫，蝻子，蚂蚱，剪虫，那些年所吃的，我要补还你们。

Two or three grave sedate-looking persons shook their heads, and left the inn, hinting, that if Gile Gosling wished to continue to thrive, he should turn his thriftless godless nephew adrift again.

有两三个严肃而沉静的人却摇摇头，走出了旅店，暗示吉尔斯·戈斯林，要是他想生意继续兴隆，就该趁早打发这个奢侈无度、不敬上帝的外甥再到外面去漂泊。