loitered

英 [ˈlɔɪtəd]

美 [ˈlɔɪtərd]

v.  闲站着; 闲荡; 徘徊
loiter的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 闲逛；游荡；徘徊
  If youloitersomewhere, you remain there or walk up and down without any real purpose.
  1. Unemployed young men loiter at the entrance of the factory.
     失业的小年轻在工厂门口游荡。

双语例句

• I loitered away the time in looking through the shop windows.
  我以观看商店橱窗来消磨时光。
• But Scarlett loitered, wondering how to bring up the subject of Ashley without permitting Gerald to suspect her motive.
  可是思嘉还在踌躇，不知怎样才能把话题转到艾希礼身上而又不让杰拉尔德怀疑她的用意。
• They loitered away their time.
  他们游手好闲地消磨时间。
• The sun went down in a blaze of blush, the moon loitered behind the trees, and the south wind whispered to the lotus that the poet was not as simple as he seemed.
  太阳羞红了脸，下山了，月亮在树林里徘徊踟蹰，南风轻轻地告诉芙蓉：这诗人似乎不像他外表那样单纯呀！
• "So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best."
  “我读书、欣赏画、上戏院，听啦，想啦，写我最喜欢的东西啦就这样虚度了我的一生。”
• Behind Foshan Fengfu's gates, workers loitered in their company uniforms.
  在工厂的大门后面，工人们穿着公司制服四处闲逛。
• But with no room in wards upstairs immediately available, he waited in the overcrowded emergency room for three days and sometimes loitered outside, investigators say.
  但调查人员表示，因为没能立即在楼上的住院部找到病房，他在过度拥挤的急诊室里等了三天，有时候还在急诊室外闲逛。
• She loitered away the whole morning.
  她把整个上午的时间闲混过去了。
• John loitered in front of Woolworth's staring at the candy display, trying to decide what candy to buy.
  约翰在伍尔沃思商店门前转来转去，眼睛盯着橱窗里陈列的糖果，拿不定主意该买哪一种。
• The promised car was not there to meet us, so we loitered furtively among the crowds.
  预约的接站车没有来接我们，于是我们就只好混在人群中闲逛。