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erstwhile adj.从前的；往昔的 (1) 他先前的朋友转而与他作对。(2) 这位往昔的老师找到了一种让我们晚上安静下来的方法。 Erstwhile comes from Old English and is a formal way to say "former." You can go to your class reunion 20 years after you graduate high school and see your erstwhile friends. That means that they had been your friends, but you lost touch with them, so that they weren't friends of yours anymore. Can you think of some people that you wish were erstwhile classmates of yours?

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英 ['ɜːstwaɪl] 美 ['ɜːrstwaɪl] (1) His erstwhile friends turned against him.(2) This erstwhile schoolmaster had discovered a way of keeping us quiet in the evenings. If your dad used to play in a punk band, but is now a computer programmer, you could call him an erstwhile punk rocker. Erstwhile means "former." 1[ADJ 形容词]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.   [ADJ n]  [FORMAL 正式]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。

英语单词	erstwhile
英美音标	英 ['ɜːstwaɪl] 美 ['ɜːrstwaɪl]
中文释义	adj.从前的；往昔的
英语例句	(1) His erstwhile friends turned against him. (2) This erstwhile schoolmaster had discovered a way of keeping us quiet in the evenings.
中文例句	(1) 他先前的朋友转而与他作对。 (2) 这位往昔的老师找到了一种让我们晚上安静下来的方法。
vocabulary简明	If your dad used to play in a punk band, but is now a computer programmer, you could call him an erstwhile punk rocker. Erstwhile means "former."
vocabulary扩展	Erstwhile comes from Old English and is a formal way to say "former." You can go to your class reunion 20 years after you graduate high school and see your erstwhile friends. That means that they had been your friends, but you lost touch with them, so that they weren't friends of yours anymore. Can you think of some people that you wish were erstwhile classmates of yours?
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ 形容词]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. [ADJ n] [FORMAL 正式] 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 Friends Punk Means 英 ɜːstwaɪl] 美 ɜːrstwaɪl Adj.从前的；往昔的