while
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/ wa?l; US hwa?l; hwa?l/ n
[sing]
(period of) time （壹段）時間: She worked in a
bank for a while before studying law. 她學法律之前在銀行工作過壹段時間. * For a long while we had no news of him. 很長壹段時間我們沒有他的消息. *
I'll be back in a little while, ie soon. 我壹會兒就回來.
* It took quite a while (ie a long time) to find a hotel. 很長時間才找到壹家旅館. * We
waited for three hours, all the while hoping that someone would come and fetch
us. 我們等候了三個小時, 壹直希望能有人來接我們.
(idm 習語) once in a while => once.
worth sb's while => worth.
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while v (phr v) while sth away pass
(a period of time) in a leisurely way 逍遙自在地度過（壹段時間）: We
whiled away the time at the airport reading magazines. 我們在機場閱讀雜誌消磨時間.
* It's easy to while a few hours away in a museum.
在博物館裏很容易打發掉幾個小時.
while
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/ wa?l; US hwa?l; hwa?l/ (also whilst / wa?lst; US hwa?lst;
hwa?lst/) conj
(a) during the time that; when 在...期間; 當...的時候:
He fell asleep while (he was) doing his homework.
他做著做著功課就睡著了. * While I was in Madrid there was a
carnival. 我在馬德裏的時候正趕上狂歡節. * While (locked up) in
prison, she wrote her first novel. 她在獄中寫出了第壹部小說. (b) at the
same time as 與...同時: While Mary was writing a letter, the
children were playing outside. 瑪麗寫信時孩子都在外面玩兒. * He listens to the radio while driving to work.
他去上班壹邊開著車壹邊聽音樂. * I lived in a hostel while I was
a student. 我求學期間住在青年招待所裏.
(used to show a contrast 用以表示對比或相反的情況): I drink black coffee while he prefers it with cream.
我愛喝清咖啡而他喜歡加奶油的. * English is understood all over
the world while Turkish is spoken by only a few people outside Turkey itself.
英語世界通行, 但土耳其語離開本國就很少有人說了.
(fml 文) although 雖然: While I admit that there are problems, I don't agree that they cannot
be solved. 盡管我承認有問題存在,
但我不同意說這些問題不能解決.