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

• 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。
• Click here to insert the Contacts While Away section.
  单击此处插入代理联系人节。
• That's the bar where Sara and I used to while away the hours between lectures.
  那就是萨拉与我过去常常消磨讲座之间几个小时的酒吧。
• 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。
• Murdoch's sprawling, leafy-green campus makes you forget that you are just a little while away from the bustle of the city.
  走在莫道克大学宽阔葱郁的校园，你很容易忘记自己与繁华热闹的城市只有一线之隔。十分友好、平易近人的教职工使学习变得容易起来。
• Don't while away time watching television.
  别将看电视作为消遣。
• A detective story helps to while away the time.
  侦探小说有助于打发时间。
• 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。
• 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。