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B1until somethingexpectedhappens, or while somethingelseishappening: 在此期间；（与此）同时 Carl'sstartingcollegeinSeptember. Meanwhile, he'stravellingaroundEurope.卡尔9月将开始大学生活。此间他将会环游欧洲。 Synonymsin theinterim in themeantime - We'llbuyyou someshortsat theweekend, but meanwhile you'll just have towearyourlongtrousers.
- Theboysare still getting thematsout so, meanwhile, let's do somewarm-upexercises.
- "Thepizzawill bereadyin 10minutes, Mum." "Great- meanwhile, let's set thetable."
- They'vearrangedto have anothermeetingin twoweeks, and meanwhile theproblemis gettingworseandworse!
- Thecomputersshould beworkingagainsoon. Meanwhile, could everyone get on with somepaperworkor something?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesUntil a particular moment - before
- day
- far
- hitherto
- in
- inside
- interim
- now
- pending
- thus
- till
- time
- to
- to dateidiom
- until
- up to(doing) somethingidiom
- wait
- yet
See more results » meanwhile| American Dictionaryuntil somethingexpectedhappens, or while somethingelseishappening: It’s going to take severaldaysfor mycarto berepaired– meanwhile I’mrentingone. Examplesofmeanwhilemeanwhile Meanwhile, the state granted tracts of land to nobles or permitted them to purchase land in what had become the old borderlands.From theCambridge English Corpus The greatness of his poetry, and the fascination of the era which produced it,meanwhileremain undisputed.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, the needs of the day are profound, as is outlined in a later section of this article on critical directions for future work.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, as an epistemological consequence of microscopy, the argument from invisibility had led to heated debates over microscopic reality.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, since 1997, strong debates have arisen in the international research setting.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, indirect taxation had become less obviously regressive with the introduction in 1942 of purchase tax on the consumption of non-essential goods.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, the rates at which different regions remitted tax revenues to the centre continued to vary widely.From theCambridge English Corpus The direct and immediate costs,meanwhile, were largely concentrated in the public sector workforce.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, the democratic institutions by which conflict can be managed through peaceful means are not yet in place.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, dogmatic positions on whether perceived color is a property of physical objects or of the observer's nervous system are unreasonable.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, reform proposals have been published by the mass media (50) and in documents produced by academic institutions with the collaboration of key people (11).From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, region is also a rough guide for understanding the ethnic distribution of the country.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, the auctioned segments stand as artworks in front of museums or business headquarters all over the world.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, the steady interior flow generated in the annular region creates a biaxial extensional flow in the neighbourhood of the inner droplet.From theCambridge English Corpus Meanwhile, future modeling work should fully exploit the richness of reading eye movements and be wary of the limitations of aggregated data.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |