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

• 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。
• 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？
• A detective story helps to while away the time.
  侦探小说有助于打发时间。
• While away at summer school, my teen-age daughter, Erin, became friendly with two other girls.
  我十来岁的女儿埃里因在暑期学校里和两个女孩儿交上了朋友。
• They while away many afternoons on the beach.
  他们在海滩消磨了许多个下午。
• 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。
• Through leisure activity, the people obtain while away the time the relaxation and the individuality demonstrated that has manifested own value and the life significance, satisfied has compared the top level the energetic demand.
  通过休闲活动，人们获得消遣放松和个性展示，体现了自身价值和生命意义，满足了较高层次的精神需求。
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't while away time watching television.
  别将看电视作为消遣。