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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

verb

• spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner
  Synonym:get through

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。
• 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。
• Forward Dirk Kuyt is out with a shoulder injury sustained while away with Holland while Joe Cole serves the final game of his three-match suspension.
  裤子在代表荷兰队参赛期间肩膀受伤将会缺席比赛，小乔将会继续履行他的三场禁赛的最后一场。
• 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。
• We while away the time at the airport read magezines.
  我们在机场阅读杂志消磨时间。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。