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

• 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。
• 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。
• Bonus question: am I endangering my relationship or marriage by leaving said husband/ wife/ girlfriend/ boyfriend at home to see someone else while away?
  附加问题：我把丈夫妻子女朋友男朋友留在家里，出去见其他人，会危及我的婚姻或恋爱关系吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。