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
- 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。 - 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。 - They while away many afternoons on the beach.
他们在海滩消磨了许多个下午。 - 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。 - A detective story helps to while away the time.
侦探小说有助于打发时间。 - 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。 - You have no choice in the memories while away endless in this earthly reincarnation.
你也无奈于美好记忆消磨在这无尽的俗世轮回里。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。