Leisure
['leʒə] or ['liʒɚ]
解释:
(noun.) freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity; 'he lacked the leisure for golf'.
(noun.) time available for ease and relaxation; 'his job left him little leisure'.
贝妮塔整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
(n.) Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
(a.) Unemployed; as, leisure hours.
编辑:希娜
同义词及近义词：
n. Spare hours, spare time, time to spare.
克利夫顿录入
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Freedom, vacation, opportunity, convenience, ease, quiet, retirement,spare_time, unoccupied_time
ANT:Constraint, employment, occupation, distraction, labor, bustle, toil, business,absorption, engagement
查理校对
解释:
n. time free from employment: freedom from occupation convenient opportunity ease.—adj. unoccupied.—adj. Lei′sured not occupied with business.—adj. and adv. Lei′surely not hasty or hastily.—At leisure At one's leisure free from occupation at one's ease or convenience.
整理:纳特
娱乐性解释：
From Eng., lazy, and sure; assured laziness.
伊莉斯校对
例句:
- You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- He studies her at his leisure, not speaking for a time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- So they might hope to strike down France at one blow, and deal at their leisure with Russia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I shall certainly be at leisure. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- It was only of late years that she had had leisure enough in her life to go into society; and as society she did not enjoy it. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- My illness has made me think It has given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Reflect, afterwards when--when you are at leisure, and your conscience will withdraw this accusation. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- But Jane was to go home with her, and at Longbourn there would be leisure enough for observation. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- The comfort of it in her hours of leisure was extreme. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- It is she who remains and suffers--and has the leisure to think, and brood, and remember. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- However, we will go back at our leisure and verify it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Politics, business, recreation, art, science, the learned professions, polite intercourse, leisure, represent such interests. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- This done, the postboy drove off; Giles, Mr. Maylie, and Oliver, followed at their leisure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- It happened that at the time I was more or less at leisure, because I had just finished working on the carbon-button telephone, and this electric-light idea took possession of me. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
手打:萨曼莎