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whilen. 1. time时间。 △Ado.4.1.258 (255):“Lady Beatrice,have you wept all this while?” 贝特丽丝小姐,你一直在哭吗? 2. a short space of time 一会儿。 △Ado.4.1.259(256):“Yea,and I will weep a while longer.”不错,我还要再哭一会儿。 3. occasion时刻,时机。 △Mer.2.1. 31:“But alas thewhile!”i.e.alas for this occasion. 可是,这一次,唉! Phrase: the while: ❶the present time,the present age,now现在这个时候,当代,现在。 △1H.IV.2.4.146 (130):“There lives not three good men unhanged in Eng-land,and one of them is fat and grows old,God helpthe while!” (good men: brave highwaymen inFalstaff's view.)在英国,没有被绞死的好汉剩下的还不到三个,其中的一个还是个胖子,而且也老了,上帝拯救这个时代吧! △R.III.2.3.8:“Ay,sir,it is too true,God help thewhile!”哎,先生,太确实了,上帝保佑我们这个时代吧! ❷at the present time or age在现在这个时候,在当代。 △R.III.3.6.10:“Here's a good world the while!”现如今真是一个好世道! ❸meanwhile同时。 △As.2.5.31: “coverthe while;”趁这工夫把餐桌摆好吧。
whileprep. until,till直到…为止。 △Mac.3.1.44 (43):“while then,God be with you!”于再会之前,愿上帝和你们同在!
whileconj. 1. as long as长达…之久,只要。 △3H.VI.1.1.172:“Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs,/ And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou livest.”只要你答应肯定把王位传给我和我的后人,你就可以终生在位,安享太平。 2. until直到。 △3H.VI.3.3. 38: “Renowned queen,with patience calm the storm,/ While we bethink ameans to break it off.”名声昭著的王后,请耐心一点,把你的激烈风暴平息下来,等我想一个办法把这种局面结束。 Phrases: while as: while 同时。 △2H.VI.1.1.226 (225):“While as the silly owner of the goods/Weeps overthem,”而同时那可怜的物主只能为它们而哭泣。 while that: while同时。 △H.V.5.2.46:“while thatthe coulter rusts/That should deracinate such savage-ry;”同时本该铲除这些野生杂草的犁铧却生了锈。 “while the grass grows”: an old saying,“While thegrass grows,the steed starves.”古语:“等到草长足,马儿变枯骨。” △Ham.3.2.365 (343): “Ay,sir,but ‘whilethe grass grows’—the proverb is something musty.”i.e.while I am waiting for the succession to the throne,I may die. 是的,先生,但是“等到草长足,马儿变枯骨”,这句老话已经有些陈腐了。 while[(h)wail]n.一会儿 conj.当…时 ◇ all the while 一直,始终 at whereas 有时 between whiles 时时 for a while=in a while一会儿 once in a while 偶尔 the while 当时 while sth. away 逍遥自在 |