Timepass
Timepass
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2017
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C. Jeffrey
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《牛津英语词典》在线版将“时间流逝”定义为“通常以无目的或非生产性的方式打发时间的行为或事实”。在当代印度，人们通常使用“时间通”这个词来指工作之间的一段时间，它被不同地呈现为“时间通”，“时间通”，“时间通”和“TP”。虽然时间流逝在理论上可以指任何消磨时间的活动，但它通常表示相对无意义，轻松，琐碎的活动，并且它与印度的“严肃”行动相反。时间流逝包括分散注意力，适度的娱乐，只有当它避开无聊，防止消极的内省，让身体，思想和灵魂从日常生活中得到喘息时，它才是富有成效的。“Bas main timepass kar raha hoon”（“我只是在做时间传递”）是人们在讲印地语的印度的茶摊和公共汽车站反复听到的短语。言下之意是“没有进一步谈话的必要;我几乎什么也没做”。从这个意义上讲，Timepass与看似相似的英语单词pastime（消遣）完全不同，后者意味着为娱乐或作为爱好而采取的行动。事实上，“时间流逝”经常被直接等同于“什么都没有”。
Oxford English Dictionary Online defines ‘timepass’ as ‘The action or fact of passing the time, typically in an aimless or unproductive way’. In contemporary India, people commonly use the word ‘timepass’ to refer to a period of downtime between bouts of work, and it is variously rendered as ‘timepass’, ‘time pass’, ‘time-pass’, and ‘TP’. While timepass could theoretically refer to any activity that passes the time, it usually denotes relatively meaningless, light, trivial activity, and it is counter-posed against ‘serious’ action in India. Timepass involves distraction, mild amusement, and is productive only insofar as it staves off boredom, prevents negative introspection, and allows the body, mind and soul some respite from ordinary life. ‘Bas main timepass kar raha hoon’ (‘I’m only doing timepass’) is the type of phrase one hears repeatedly at tea stalls and bus stops in Hindi-speaking India. The implication is ‘There is no further need for conversation; I’m doing almost nothing at all’. Timepass, in this sense, is quite different from the seemingly similar English word ‘pastime’ which connotes action undertaken for pleasure or as a hobby. Indeed, ‘timepass’ is often equated quite straightforwardly with ‘nothing’.