| 词汇 | time-waster |
| 释义 | time-waster noun[ C ] uk /ˈtaɪm ˌweɪ.stər/ us /ˈtaɪm ˌweɪ.stɚ/ someone who causes another person to waste time doing something that does not achieve any good result: 浪费别人时间的人 The ad was answered by a lot of time-wasters who didn't even seriously want the job.回复广告的人中有许多人是在浪费别人时间，根本不是真想要这份工作。 an activity that takes a lot of time and does not achieve anything important: 浪费时间的活动 The internet has replaced television as the biggest time-waster ever invented.互联网已取代电视成了有史以来人类发明的最能用来浪费时间的活动。 Delaying and wasting time ado busywork buy timeidiom carry something over dally gridlock hold up inefficiency inefficiently kept kick push raincheck retard retardation set someone back (something) shelve sit spin stall Examples of time-wastertime-waster He is not one of the time-wasters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So thick are the serious matters to be considered that this is one of those rare parliamentary occasions when we can get happily rid of the professional time-wasters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters but computers and cellphones are a constant stream of stimuli that poses challenge to focusing and learning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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