while away
英 [waɪl əˈweɪ]
美 [waɪl əˈweɪ]
消磨，打发（时间）
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 消磨，打发(时间)
If youwhile awaythe time in a particular way, you spend time in that way, because you are waiting for something else to happen, or because you have nothing else to do.- Miss Bennett whiled away the hours playing old films on her video-recorder.
贝内特小姐用录像机播放老电影来消磨时间。
- Miss Bennett whiled away the hours playing old films on her video-recorder.
英英释义
verb
- spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner
双语例句
- Murdoch's sprawling, leafy-green campus makes you forget that you are just a little while away from the bustle of the city.
走在莫道克大学宽阔葱郁的校园，你很容易忘记自己与繁华热闹的城市只有一线之隔。十分友好、平易近人的教职工使学习变得容易起来。 - While away at summer school, my teen-age daughter, Erin, became friendly with two other girls.
我十来岁的女儿埃里因在暑期学校里和两个女孩儿交上了朋友。 - Books of engravings, drawers of medals, cameos, corals, shells, and every other family collection within his cabinets, had been prepared for his old friend, to while away the morning;
他为他的老朋友准备了一本本的版画册，从柜子里拿出一抽屉又一抽屉的纪念章、浮雕宝石、珊瑚、贝壳等家藏珍品，供他消磨一个上午。 - Forward Dirk Kuyt is out with a shoulder injury sustained while away with Holland while Joe Cole serves the final game of his three-match suspension.
裤子在代表荷兰队参赛期间肩膀受伤将会缺席比赛，小乔将会继续履行他的三场禁赛的最后一场。 - We while away the time at the airport read magezines.
我们在机场阅读杂志消磨时间。 - Don't while away time watching television.
别将看电视作为消遣。 - While away from the game show's host, as well as about half the time now not sure.
虽然离电玩展的举办，还有半个月左右的时间目前不能肯定。 - Miss Bennett whiled away the hours playing old films on her video-recorder.
贝内特小姐用录像机播放老电影来消磨时间。 - To avoid controversy, many economists choose to remain silent and while away in their complacency.
出于避免争议的考虑，经济学家们大多选择了逃避。 - That's the bar where Sara and I used to while away the hours between lectures.
那就是萨拉与我过去常常消磨讲座之间几个小时的酒吧。