1·Instead of looking for work, he preferred to bat around.
他不去找工作做，宁愿到处游荡。
2·Around streetlights in leafy suburbs, what often seems like a moth at first glance may, in fact, be a small bat.
在绿树成荫的郊区，街灯周围经常有乍一看像是飞蛾的东西，事实上可能是一只小蝙蝠。
3·Either the squirrel thought the bat was a threat to it, or to its young if they were around, or to a food source.
或者这只松鼠认为那只蝙蝠在周围对它有威胁，或者对它的孩子有威胁，或者对食物的来源有威胁。
4·The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkable nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place.
夜间四处飞翔的普通蝙蝠在空中异常灵巧敏捷，但却无法从水平面上起飞。
5·This species of horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus blasii, was very common, making up roughly 70 percent of all the individuals that we captured in and around this site.
这种布氏菊头蝠很常见，我们在此地捕获蝙蝠中的70%都是这种蝙蝠。
6·A familiar town-dweller found Australia wide is the Lesser Long-eared bat (Nyctophilus geoffroyi) which is often found catching moths and flying bugs around streetlights.
在全澳大利亚都可以发现小长耳蝠，它们经常在街灯周围捕捉蛾子和飞虫。
7·Their thuggish candidate for New York governor swaggered around with a baseball bat and threatened reporters and anyone else who annoyed him.
他们杀手似的纽约州长候选人带着一根棒球棒大摇大摆转悠，威胁记者和任何让他恼怒的人。
8·I'll bat it around with my colleagues.
我会和同事商讨的。
9·The ordinary bat that flies around at night, who is a remarkable nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place.
晚上飞来飞去的普通的蝙蝠，本是一种在空中极其灵敏的动物，但却无法在平地上腾飞。
10·Bat in Western cultures, where bats have been associated with witches since the Middle Ages, these flying mammals are generally considered bad luck, or at least no fun to have around.
蝙蝠从中世纪起，西方文化就把蝙蝠与巫婆联系在一起，认为这种飞行的哺乳动物是不祥之物，至少让人们见了感到扫兴。