音标:['ә:stwail] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
adv. 以前, 往昔地
a. 以前的, 往昔的
s. belonging to some prior time

考试类型:[GRE]
词性分布:
形容词94%
副词6%

erstwhile的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. His erstwhile friends turned against him.他先前的朋友转而与他作对。
  2. 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。

经典引文

  • His hair was frizzed and much lighter than erstwhile.

    出自:W. Golding
  • The conservative will find the practice of politics as difficult as he has erstwhile found its theory.

    出自:R. Scruton
【近义词】

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now a book mystery, not a mystery book. Handbook For Mortals is actually a fantasy paranormal romance. It hit the top of the most recent New York Times young adult best seller list, which seemed odd because not many people had ev

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台8月
学英语单词
a cross
ACO2
aerase
AFOE
ALCI
algose
arca ventricosa
Arelate
Ashok
ballistic coefficient
Bazlwehn
BCG-OWS
blanket position bond
breath pack
Camonica, Val.
celse
clot-bur
computerized axial tomography scanner
contracting out
creative selection
crew's accommodation
Cryototympana
cycle test
cycomm
daysailor
decision height (dh)
detonation velocity
disment
doagh isle
doing-nothing
drug plant
ecophenatypic variation
eighty-third
electromagnetic shower
ergatocrat
explant
fearius
fresh - air fiend
gall stone
Girawa
greensperson
Hedionda, L.
homegrowns
hydraulic turbine operating head
idodine
isotopic heat
kind band
let down your guard
linen paper
location code
Mezhozërnyy
Milk Ordinance and Code of U.S.
montages
nodal transfer
normal to a hypersurface
north canadian
offscourings
optical diagnosis
opuscular
oregon jargons
orthotast
Ostyak-Samoyed
overlifting
P.A. system
paracodin
pawpaw
penneth
Petrokrepost'
phase of the moon
phenyl iodochloride
Phthorimaea operculella
pitting coefficient
plate heat-exchanger
protective conductor current
ratchet blocking system
reversible axial pump
rivet collar
rohrabacher
rolled core type transformer
rural ecosystem
Sandmeyer diazo reaction
scanning sonar equipment
sea hazard
seating of the vessel head
separated uniform space
smooth snakes
ST_life-and-death_remembering-people-who-have-died
stamp forging
stannous phenide
storm wastewater
thermadyne
topic-comments
Trametes
triaxial reference system
trusted third party
Viserotropic
whanged
whistle buoys
whole-bound
wilforine
woolant
you son of bitch