at a loose end

常见例句

双语例句

• 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。

权威例句

• 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.
  ECONOMIST: The
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