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(114) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台8月
学英语单词
aderoxal
air douche
Anabloc
and no more
angle of equilibrium
antigout agents
baby giraffe
bar line printer
boxing glove
Chinese box
clingmans
cockcrowings
component item class
computing hydrodynamics
conserate
convallaretin
cutaneous keratocyst
desire someone to do something
distortion index
driving-point mobility
dunne
ecosanctuary
educational priority area (epa)
efficient audit
electroassisted
electrochemical affinity
Ellef Ringnes I.
ethnic slur
euro-link
excessive heating
fan duster
Faraday constant
fineness moldulus
flag leaf length
funded indebtedness
gensym
genuine turpentine oil
get the better of someone
goaten
half-node
hard mass
herennia multipuncta
hexestrols
hot air dryer
hundred flowers
I.B.
ignition inhibition for fire prevention
injury of vestibular nerve
inquisitee
internal cloud
invaletudinary
Jameson Park
jasmined
jha
kilocal
ladies' rooms
large-scale culture
level bottom environment
LTEs
lupinoides
melanolysosomes
meso-ionic compound
Moldovenism
Montague Sd.
Morse instrument
nanoplatforms
nepetaline
no - man's land
noise photoelectron
optical excited laser
oral route
osmunda biformis makino
parastrangalis subapicalis
parsley fern
passeth
personal stereos
pipe head
plovdiv (philippopolis)
Productinida
pyrrhic dance
repeat-action key
residual monopoly power
return on gross assets
riibosomal proteins
roweling
section switch
self-propelled ship
shout-up
single criterion under risk
slead
spirits up
static horizon sensor
throwing belt
traduction
transient program table
tremblingly
ultraviolet spectrograph
unsymmetric angular milling cutter
vindaloo
vowel quality
weisskopf