Leisure
['leʒə] or ['liʒɚ]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:希娜
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Spare hours, spare time, time to spare.
克利夫顿錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Freedom, vacation, opportunity, convenience, ease, quiet, retirement,spare_time, unoccupied_time
ANT:Constraint, employment, occupation, distraction, labor, bustle, toil, business,absorption, engagement
查理校對
解釋/意思:
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
From Eng., lazy, and sure; assured laziness.
伊莉斯校對
例句/造句/用法:
- You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He studies her at his leisure, not speaking for a time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- So they might hope to strike down France at one blow, and deal at their leisure with Russia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I shall certainly be at leisure. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- 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. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- My illness has made me think It has given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside. 愛德格·賴斯·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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But Jane was to go home with her, and at Longbourn there would be leisure enough for observation. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The comfort of it in her hours of leisure was extreme. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It is she who remains and suffers--and has the leisure to think, and brood, and remember. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- However, we will go back at our leisure and verify it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Politics, business, recreation, art, science, the learned professions, polite intercourse, leisure, represent such interests. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- This done, the postboy drove off; Giles, Mr. Maylie, and Oliver, followed at their leisure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
手打:萨曼莎