at a loose end
常見(jiàn)例句
- Lacking the information needed for their project, they were for a time truly at a loose end.
由于那項(xiàng)工程缺乏必要的資料,他們一時(shí)不知如何是好. - In these situations, when we have free time, but we don't know what to do with it, we say we are at a loose end .
當(dāng)我們有空卻不知道做些什么打發(fā)的時(shí)候,我們就可以稱(chēng)這種情況為at a loose end,無(wú)事可做,閑著。 - A: Oh, he had to cancel, so I'm at a loose end.
A:噢,他有事取消了,所以現(xiàn)在我沒(méi)事做了。 - All the same, his lifelong obsession with art remained undimmed right up until the end, and he complained of feeling restless and at a loose end on Mondays, the day New York galleries are closed.
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