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
- A detective story helps to while away the time.
侦探小说有助于打发时间。 - Private rooms with electric massage chairs help while away the hours before takeoff, or ask one of the onsite professional masseurs for a rubdown.
带有电子信息椅的私人休息室可以帮助你消磨等待飞机的漫长时间，当然您也可以选择请一位专业按摩专家来驱散您全身的疲惫。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - We while away the time at the airport read magezines.
我们在机场阅读杂志消磨时间。 - 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。 - When I had the joyous job of reporting on Asia for the FT, I used to while away many a waiting hour at airports trying to guess the nationalities of my fellow passengers.
当我负责英国《金融时报》亚洲报道这一令人喜爱的工作时，曾多次利用在机场等候的时间，观察和我一样的乘客，试图猜出他们的国籍。 - Shrewdly, the hotel realised that, with so many night flights out of Hong Kong, guests who had already checked out needed somewhere to while away the time.
这家酒店精明地认识到，香港有很多航班在夜间起飞，已经退房的客人需要有地方消磨时间。 - 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。