pottered

Instead, he worked or pottered around at home.

他常常喜欢待在家里，做些工作或者杂七杂八的琐事。

for years, it pottered along, weighed down by the regulations that made up the licence raj, producing only a feeble "hindu" rate of growth.

多年来，它一直疲于奔命，由法规规定做出了牌照raj，仅仅产生了一个软弱的“印度教徒报”的增长速度。

after he went into the retirement, he always pottered about in the garden.

退休后，他总是在花园里逛来逛去，干些零活儿。

There were two engineers in his section, who started the tedious task of testing the things, when Alan pottered in, and decided that it should all be solved from theoretical principles-in this case, it being an electromagnetic problem, from Maxwell's equations.

在他的部门中，有两名工程师正在做着繁琐的测试，艾伦正好走进来，立刻指出这些可以用麦克斯韦方程来解决。

Leonard pottered round the greenhouse, tying up canes for the tomatoes.

伦纳德在温室里悠然自得地给西红柿绑上撑杆。