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erstwhile

英 ['ɜːstwaɪl] 美['ɝstwaɪl]

英英释义实用场景例句

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

His erstwhile friends turned against him.: 他先前的朋友转而与他作对。

Erstwhile workers may have become managers...: 过去的工人可能已经成了经理。

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。

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Erstwhile workers may have become managers.: 过去的工人可能已经成了经理。

His erstwhile friends turned against him.: 他先前的朋友转而与他作对。

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。