kick about

谈论；存在；漫不经心地踢；漫不经心地游荡；

verb

1. be around
be alive or active

e.g. Does the old man still kick around?

Synonym: kick aroundknock about

1. 反抗：kick a habit 戒除某习惯 | kick about 反抗 | kick against the pricks 以卵击石

2. 被闲置于;到处游荡;非正式讨论：2843kickn. 踢,反冲,后座力; v. 踢,反抗,反冲 | 2844kick about被闲置于;到处游荡;非正式讨论 | 2845kick off开始,开球

The class is near capacity right now (about three spots left), and I’m ready to kick this thing off next Wednesday.(上课人数就快要满了（大概还有3个位置这样），而且，我打算把这课程开始的时间推迟到下周三。)

Where the Marlboro Man juggled cigarettes with a coiled lasso or a horse, Mr Landers tended to kick about in New England snow.(在万宝路男人用一条盘绕的套索或一匹马耍弄香烟之处，兰德斯先生则往往是在新英格兰的雪中游荡。)

I have some good news-kick back, relax, enjoy the rest of the summer, stop worrying about where your life is and isn't heading.(有一个好消息要宣布——大家可以在余下的夏日里放松放松、享受享受，停止顾虑现在在哪儿、未来将前往何方这些该死的问题了。)

The song, which is about the moments before nuclear warfare, is preceded by a minute and a half of Eno-worthy buzz before the pianos and Yorke's harmonizing kick in.(这首歌内容关于核战争到来之前的瞬间，歌曲的开始是一分半钟的巨大嗡嗡声，之后有钢琴和主唱Yorke声音的缓缓进入。)

A football which generates enough electricity to charge a mobile phone or power a light from a brief kick about is undergoing trials in World Cup host country South Africa.(在世界杯主办国南非，一种通过短暂一踢而产生足够电能、并能为一部手机充电或者为一个LED灯供能的足球正在接受试验。)

It'll earn him a little bit of money, and every pint or bottle sold could kick off a conversation about his momentous discovery 14 years ago.(这为他赚到了一点钱，而且出售的每一品托或每瓶酒都会让人想起十四年的那个重要发现。)

The fear is that 'once AVIC knows enough about how to do this, they'll kick [GE] out and be on their own, ' he says.(曾是GE航空业务高管的沃森说，担忧之处在于一旦中航工业掌握了足够的技术，他们将踢开（GE），自己单干。)

Don't kick up a row about such trifle.(不要为小事去胡闹。)

Do not move about or kick up dust.(罿不要向周围移动，避免扬起灰尘。)

They hope to kick off clinical trials in about five years.(研究者们计划用五年左右的时间完成临床试验。)