| 释义 |
- whiles
- whiling
- whiled
- whiled
conj- ① 当…的时候
- We played chess while they slept.他们睡觉的时候,我们在下西洋棋。
- While there is life, there is hope.【谚】留得青山在,不怕没[依旧有]柴烧;留得五湖明月在,不愁无处下金钩。
- While (he was) doing his homework, he fell asleep.他在做功课时睡觉了。
- ②[表让步、对照]然而,但是;虽然
- Some are rich, while others are poor.有的人很有钱,有的人却很穷。
- While I have some sympathy for them, I don't think they are right.虽然我对他们有些同情,我却不认为他们是对的。
vt- ① 消磨,度过<away>
- He whiled away the summer days (by) reading books.他以读书消磨夏日。
用法(1)while所引导的子句之主词与主要子句的主词相同时,往往省略其主词与be动词;但此一用法在 【口】 中比较少见: While (I was) reading, I fell asleep. 我在看书时睡着了。 (2)while有时会减弱其本来的意义,而语气上几乎与and同,例如: Mr. White is American, his wife is French, while his business associate is German. 怀特先生是美国人,他太太是法国人,而他的合伙人是德国人。 短语- a long while
- It happened a long while ago.那是很久以前发生的事。
- all the while
- She chattered all the while I was watching television.我在看电视的时候,她一直喋喋不休。
- at whiles
- between whiles
- for a while
- in a while
- make it worth a person's while
- ① 【口】报答某人的辛劳,向某人致送适当的谢礼;向某人行贿
- quite a while
- the while
同义词- bit
- dawdle
- effort
- elbow grease
- endeavor
- exertion
- fiddle away
- idle
- kill
- pain
- space
- spell
- strain
- striving
- struggle
- time
- trifle away
- trouble
- waste
- wile
词路径- entity
- abstraction
- abstract entity
- measure
- quantity
- amount
- fundamental quantity
- fundamental measure
- time period
- period of time
- period
- time
- while
- piece
- spell
- patch
下位词- cold snap
- cold spell
- hot spell
- snap
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