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
- 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。 - It is foolish to while away one's time in idle talk.
把时间花费在闲聊上是很愚蠢的。 - 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。 - They while away many afternoons on the beach.
他们在海滩消磨了许多个下午。 - A detective story helps to while away the time.
侦探小说有助于打发时间。 - No other camera will render the subject this sharp while melting away the background so smoothly.
没有其他房间将使这一主题尖锐而融化的背景如此顺利。 - To while away the day.
消磨了一天的时间。 - Those behaviors and attitudes can "seriously impair" experiences while away at camp, boarding school, college or the hospital, he said.
无论是外出露营还是在住宿学校，大学或者医院，这些行为和态度使其经历减色不少。 - 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。