| 单词 | while |
| 释义 | while I. 1. a. < any critic may after a while exhaust his interest in a subject — C.W.Shumaker > < takes us quite a while to find out — Sean O'Faolain > b. < looking here and there and calling his name, though I knew all the while it was too late — Mary Webb > < went to her herb garden for her seasonings … and thus preserved the health of her family, the while she saved her purse — Van Wyck Brooks > c. < one while, it seems, he trapped in the … mountains — J.F.Dobie > < were whiles when I was terrible bored — John Buchan > d. < if you've been reading this book for over an hour, you'd better put it aside for a while — W.J.Reilly > < went away and came back again in a while — Pearl Buck > e. < a breathing while — Shakespeare > f. archaic < God help the while — Shakespeare > 2. < aesthetic matters are important, and … it is worth the while of a healthy male to take them seriously — H.L.Mencken > < knew all the right people too because it was worth their while to know him — J.P.Marquand > II. 1. a. < instructed and encouraged the boy while he made an almost incredible … record of precocity — Alexander Cowie > < were killed while attempting a burglary — A.F.Harlow > b. < while there's life there's hope > c. < hurried to get ready while the others just sat > 2. archaic < while hunger make you eat — Christopher Marlowe > 3. a. < for many people a line of ten words requires perhaps eight fixations, while a good reader can grasp half a line as a unit — Russell Cosper & Barriss Mills > < while her book shows the uneven hand of a novice at writing, it frequently stops the reader by its poetic simplicity — Rose Feld > b. < while the evidence he has obtained may be said to fit the theory, the importance of some of it is questionable — Notes & Queries > < while a magnificent organizer of espionage, he was a poor observer himself — Allen Upward > 4. < while the book will be welcomed by scholars, it will make an immediate appeal to the general reader — British Book News > < wild grapes grow in profusion along the sides of back roads, while blackberries and wild raspberries are common — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > III. archaic < while then, God be with you — Shakespeare > IV. transitive verb < whiled away the tedium of debate by drawing caricatures — Dumas Malone > < may while away the time tootling on his recorder — Newsweek > intransitive verb archaic • whil·er |
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