while away

1. PHRASAL VERB 消磨，打发(时间)
   If you while away the 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。

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。
2. I don't know how to while away the long vacation.
   这么长的假期，真不知道该怎么打发才好。
3. 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？
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. A detective story helps to while away the time.
   侦探小说有助于打发时间。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. We while away the time at the airport read magezines.
   我们在机场阅读杂志消磨时间。
10. The Bulgarian striker picked up the problem while away on international in midweek and will definitely sit out the Red Devils'Premier League clash with Aston Villa on Saturday.
    这位保加利亚前锋是在周中的国际友谊赛中代表祖国客场挑战塞尔维亚的时候受伤的。他将肯定缺席曼联本轮客场对阵阿斯顿维拉的比赛。
11. 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。
12. Click here to insert the Contacts While Away section.
    单击此处插入代理联系人节。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. To while away the day.
    消磨了一天的时间。
20. They while away many afternoons on the beach.
    他们在海滩消磨了许多个下午。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. You have no choice in the memories while away endless in this earthly reincarnation.
    你也无奈于美好记忆消磨在这无尽的俗世轮回里。
28. To avoid controversy, many economists choose to remain silent and while away in their complacency.
    出于避免争议的考虑，经济学家们大多选择了逃避。
29. Don't while away time watching television.
    别将看电视作为消遣。
30. 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。

verb

1. spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner

   Synonym:    get through