erstwhile的中文翻译是什么意思

erstwhile

US/ˈɜrstwaɪl/
UK/ˈɜ:stwaɪl/

adj. 从前的; 以前的; 原来的; 往昔的

erstwhile柯林斯释义

ADJ以往的;往昔的

You use erstwhile to describe someone that used to be the type of person indicated, but no longer is.

  • Erstwhile workers may have become managers...

    过去的工人可能已经成了经理。

  • He fled to America with Phyllis Burton, an erstwhile friend of his wife's.

    他和他妻子以前的一个朋友菲莉丝·伯顿一起逃往美国。

erstwhile英文释义

Adjective

1. belonging to some prior time;

  • erstwhile friend
  • our former glory
  • the once capital of the state
  • her quondam lover

Adverb

1. at a previous time;

  • once he loved her
  • her erstwhile writing

erstwhile场景例句

The dominant features of today's economy is that erstwhile private borrowers are, it bluntly, bust.

当今经济的主要特点 —— 坦率的说 —— 是昔日的私人借款者已经破产.

Both are in better shape than their erstwhile rivals.

他们的情况比以前的竞争对手都要好.

Continental Europeans want tighter constraints on the erstwhile titans of finance.

欧洲大陆希望对昔日的金融巨擘严加约束.

This erstwhile schoolmaster had discovered a way of keeping us quiet in the evenings.

这位往昔的老师找到了一种让我们晚上安静下来的方法.

One seems to need a dose of superiority to overcompensate for the erstwhile sense of inferiority.

昔日的低人一等看起来需要一剂“高人一头”的灵丹妙药要大肆弥补一下.

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erstwhile近义词

sometime