erstwhile
英 ['ɜːstwaɪl]
美['ɝstwaɪl]
- adj. 以前的；从前的；往昔的
- adv. 以前；往昔地
实用场景例句
- an erstwhile opponent
- 以前的对手
牛津词典
- His erstwhile friends turned against him.
- 他先前的朋友转而与他作对。
牛津词典
- Erstwhile workers may have become managers...
- 过去的工人可能已经成了经理。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He fled to America with Phyllis Burton, an erstwhile friend of his wife's.
- 他和他妻子以前的一个朋友菲莉丝·伯顿一起逃往美国。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The dominant features of today's economy is that erstwhile private borrowers are, it bluntly, bust.
- 当今经济的主要特点 —— 坦率的说 —— 是昔日的私人借款者已经破产.
期刊摘选
- Both are in better shape than their erstwhile rivals.
- 他们的情况比以前的竞争对手都要好.
期刊摘选
- Continental Europeans want tighter constraints on the erstwhile titans of finance.
- 欧洲大陆希望对昔日的金融巨擘严加约束.
期刊摘选
- This erstwhile schoolmaster had discovered a way of keeping us quiet in the evenings.
- 这位往昔的老师找到了一种让我们晚上安静下来的方法.
期刊摘选
- One seems to need a dose of superiority to overcompensate for the erstwhile sense of inferiority.
- 昔日的低人一等看起来需要一剂“高人一头”的灵丹妙药要大肆弥补一下.
期刊摘选
- Geographic location, education and the erstwhile caste system being some of the key factors.
- 其中重要的几个因素是地理位置 、 所受教育和过去的等级制度.
期刊摘选
- As to its characteristic, by reading text, it analyses the oriental _ western culturals, and transcends erstwhile nationalism.
- 就其基本特征来说, 后殖民主义从文本解读入手, 着重分析东西方间的文化关系, 并表现出超越民族主义的努力.
期刊摘选
- The same will be said of Mr Blair by erstwhile colleagues when he has gone.
- 布莱尔下台后,他以前的同僚也会说出同样的话.
期刊摘选
- Erstwhile workers may have become managers.
- 过去的工人可能已经成了经理。
辞典例句
- His erstwhile friends turned against him.
- 他先前的朋友转而与他作对。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- He fled to America with Phyllis Burton, an erstwhile friend of his wife's.
- 他和他妻子以前的一个朋友菲莉丝·伯顿一起逃往美国。
柯林斯例句