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
- They while away many afternoons on the beach.
他们在海滩消磨了许多个下午。 - The food was just fine, and there were all kinds of classes and courses to while away the hours.
食物还可以，还有各种讲座和课程，可以消磨时光。 - I don't know how to while away the long vacation.
这么长的假期，真不知道该怎么打发才好。 - 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。 - I too pass from the night, I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again and love you.
啊，夜哟，我要离开一会，但我仍要回到你这里来，并且爱你。 - 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。 - 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。 - Through leisure activity, the people obtain while away the time the relaxation and the individuality demonstrated that has manifested own value and the life significance, satisfied has compared the top level the energetic demand.
通过休闲活动，人们获得消遣放松和个性展示，体现了自身价值和生命意义，满足了较高层次的精神需求。 - 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。 - So we abolished that order, too, and tried to better the living of the parents while doing away with the school fee.
于是我们就把这个命令也撤消了，一方面设法改善家长的生活水平，一方面取消了学费。