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
- 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。 - These ladies have nothing to do But sit there and twiddle their thumbs to while away their time But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time.
她们都闲的无聊，只好坐在那里谈论别人的私事以消磨时光但是，看来并没有这种迹象，于是，她只好环视周围的一切来消磨时光。 - 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。 - Click here to insert the Contacts While Away section.
单击此处插入代理联系人节。 - 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。 - Don't while away time watching television.
别将看电视作为消遣。 - She saw Fang was a second-class passenger and thought he might make a good companion to while away the time during the trip.
她看方鸿渐是坐二等的，人还过得去，不失为旅行中消遣的伴侣。 - 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。 - 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。