at a loose end
基本解释
- 闲着;无事做
英汉例句
- Lacking the information needed for their project, they were for a time truly at a loose end.
由于那项工程缺乏必要的资料,他们一时不知如何是好. - 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 .
当我们有空却不知道做些什么打发的时候,我们就可以称这种情况为at a loose end,无事可做,闲着。 - A: Oh, he had to cancel, so I'm at a loose end.
A:噢,他有事取消了,所以现在我没事做了。 - 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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