英语词汇“time-filler”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

time-filler n. (a) depreciative = time-server n. 3 (now rare); (b) a means of occupying oneself, esp. with an undemanding or trivial activity; something which fills the time but is of little intrinsic value.

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1893 Boston Sunday Globe 10 Dec. 20/1 His [sc. the mayor's] name never will be confounded with gap stoppers and time fillers. He is the maker of a municipal epoch.

1895 Indiana School Jrnl. Mar. 134 Busy-work isn't merely a time filler (or killer), but an opportunity for the teacher to see that the little child learns to hold himself to his work..when the teacher is paying no attention to him.

1922 Open Shop Rev. Dec. 555 (heading) Don't be just a time filler. Is your daily work an enthusiastic pleasure or merely a ‘job’ to you?

1986 Boys' Life May 12/3 The rest of the LP is Jan Hammer instrumentals, and they serve the same purpose here as on the TV show: time filler.

2011 Daily Tel. 12 Jan. 22/5 Sudoku is mere grouting in the day, a time-filler, mental gym for geeks, brain fodder for a generation that has lost its sense of fun.

单词	time-filler
释义	> as lemmas time-filler time-filler n. (a) depreciative = time-server n. 3 (now rare); (b) a means of occupying oneself, esp. with an undemanding or trivial activity; something which fills the time but is of little intrinsic value. ΚΠ 1893 Boston Sunday Globe 10 Dec. 20/1 His [sc. the mayor's] name never will be confounded with gap stoppers and time fillers. He is the maker of a municipal epoch. 1895 Indiana School Jrnl. Mar. 134 Busy-work isn't merely a time filler (or killer), but an opportunity for the teacher to see that the little child learns to hold himself to his work..when the teacher is paying no attention to him. 1922 Open Shop Rev. Dec. 555 (heading) Don't be just a time filler. Is your daily work an enthusiastic pleasure or merely a ‘job’ to you? 1986 Boys' Life May 12/3 The rest of the LP is Jan Hammer instrumentals, and they serve the same purpose here as on the TV show: time filler. 2011 Daily Tel. 12 Jan. 22/5 Sudoku is mere grouting in the day, a time-filler, mental gym for geeks, brain fodder for a generation that has lost its sense of fun. extracted from timen.int.conj. < as lemmas
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