单词 | 浪费时间 |
释义 | 〔goof〕To waste or kill time.消磨时间:浪费时间或消磨时间〔loiter〕loiter over a job.在一项工作上浪费时间〔dawdle〕To take more time than necessary:浪费时间,拖延:花费得比需要的时间多:〔fuck〕To spend time idly.白白地浪费时间〔futz〕To waste time or effort on frivolities; fool. Often used witharound : 闲混:在一些无聊事上浪费时间或精力;虚度光阴。常与around 连用: 〔waster〕a waster of time; a waster of money.浪费时间的人;挥霍金钱之人〔fribble〕To waste time; trifle.虚度光阴;浪费时间〔doodle〕English dialectal [to fritter away time] 英语方言 [浪费时间] 〔lollygag〕To waste time by puttering aimlessly; dawdle.虚度光阴:无目的地磨蹭而浪费时间;虚度(光阴)〔diatribe〕Listening to a lengthy diatribe may seem like a waste of time,an attitude for which there is some etymological justification.The Greek worddiatribē, the ultimate source of our word, is derived from the verb diatribein, made up of the prefixdia-, "completely,” and tribein, "to rub,” "to wear away, spend, or waste time,” "to be busy.” The verbdiatribein meant "to rub hard,” "to spend or waste time,” and the noundiatribē meant "wearing away of time, amusement, serious occupation, study,” as well as "discourse, short ethical treatise or lecture, debate, argument.”It is the serious occupation of time in discourse, lecture, and debate that gave us the first use ofdiatribe recorded in English (1581), in the now archaic sense "discourse, critical dissertation.”The critical element of this kind of diatribe must often have been uppermost,explaining the origin of the current sense ofdiatribe, "a bitter criticism.” 听唠唠叨叨的絮语也许好象是浪费时间,这是一种态度,一些词源对此有所表明。该词的终源希腊单词diatribe 起源于由动词 diatribein ; 而后者是由前缀dia- “完全地”和 tribein (“消磨、消逝、花费或浪费时间”,“忙于”)所构成的。 动词diartibein 意思是“难熬”、“花费或浪费时间”, 而名词diatribe 意思是“时间消逝、消遣、热衷消遣,研究”, 还有“论文、伦理学论文,伦理学论文或讲演,争辩,论据”。在(1581年)英语中记载的第一次使用diatribe 是热衷于把时间消磨在论文、讲演和争辩中, 现在古体文含义是“论文,批评式的学术演讲”。这种论文所含批评因素必须常常占最主要的,它解释了diatribe 现代含义“尖刻批评”的词源 〔dawdle〕Perhaps alteration of dialectal daddle [to diddle] 可能为 方言 daddle的变化 [浪费时间,闲混] 〔boondoggle〕To waste time or money on unnecessary and often counterproductive work.做琐细的事:浪费时间和金钱去做不必要的并常产生相反效果的工作〔fart〕To fool around; fritter time away.闲荡;浪费时间〔inefficient〕Wasteful of time, energy, or materials:徒劳的:浪费时间、能量或材料的:〔footle〕To waste time; trifle.闲荡:浪费时间;闲混〔inefficient〕an inefficient design; outdated and inefficient methods.一个浪费时间的设计;过时且费料的方法〔piddle〕To spend time aimlessly; diddle.打发时间:无目标地度日;浪费时间 |
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