I should have told the selectors to shove it.

本该告诉挑选者把它打发掉。

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

“乔治，昨天把玛丽打发了。"这一类谈话在他家饭桌上经常可以听到。

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

最好建议他，以更愉悦方式来打发他低效率工作时间。

We lazed away the summer on the beach.

在沙滩上打发了夏天时光。

The boss kissed the other performers off as mere amateurs.

老板认为其他演员有业余水平而把他打发掉了。

I was sent to retrieve the balls from his garden.

打发去他捡回球。

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

由于这次过失，他降了级，又打发去干徒步巡警了。

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

打发厨师走后得自已做饭。

He dismissed them with a curt nod.

他随便点了一下头就把他打发走了。

She sent back her breakfast tray untouched.

她打发人将一盘她一口未动早餐送回。

Orphaned children were consigned to institutions.

孤儿都打发到了福利院。

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

在罗马要等十个小时，好逛逛博物馆来打发时间。

She wheedled him into going.

她用言巧语把他打发走了。

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，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.

你又想让白忙一场吗？上次你打发去买票，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：从一个部门打发到另一个部门，每个人都说帮助是他人事。

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.

打发到你中间大军队，就是蝗虫，蝻子，蚂蚱，剪虫，那些年所吃，要补还你。

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、不敬上帝外甥再到外面去漂泊。