查询词典 erstwhile

To forestall any attempts at exegesis ('Author, Citing Dadaism's Erstwhile Esotericism, Opposes Present-Day "Mamaist" Obfuscations'), I confess that as a title it means nothing at all; but then the very concept of meaning is now outdated, nerdy, pre-ironic.

为了免去注释的麻烦（作者，引用达达主义的早期深奥主义，与现在的实际主义者的困惑相反），我承认，作为题目它毫无意义；不过，"意义"的概念如今已是过时、卑微、且极具讽刺的。

The fall-out of the credit crunch saw big banks disappearing or forced into panicky mergers with erstwhile rivals.

秋季进行的信贷紧缩看到大银行消失或被迫恐慌兼并与昔日的竞争对手。

Not only is it consuming political energy, it is making jingoistic conservatism fashionable, even among some erstwhile reformers.

那不仅会消耗政治能量，还会让极端民族主义和保守主义，甚至在一些往日的改革派中盛行。

With the advent of Islam, the erstwhile Indian architecture was slightly adapted to allow the traditions of the new religion, but it remained strongly Indian at its heart and character. Arches and domes began to be used and the mosque or masjid too began to form part of the landscape, adding to a new experience in form and space.

伊斯兰教的到来，昔日的印度建筑稍微允许采用新宗教的传统，但在中心和特征上强烈地保留着印度特色，开始使用拱形和圆顶屋，清真寺或伊斯兰教寺院也开始组成土地的其中一部分，增加了时间和空间上的新体验。

The 10 civil society representatives whom the Maoists have nominated to parliament include a retired major general of the erstwhile RNA who had supported the Jan Andolan II during the time when the king had absolute powers, and a Buddhist peacenik monk.

尼共所提10名市民代表里包括一位前尼泊尔王军的少将，在贾南德拉二世握有绝对权力的时候，这位少将曾坚决的支持反独裁的第二次人民运动；还有一位笃信佛教的反战僧侣。

The10 civil society representatives whom the Maoists have nominated to parliament include a retired major general of the erstwhile RNA who had supported the Jan Andolan II during the time when the king had absolute powers, and a Buddhist peacenik monk.

尼共提10名市民代表里包括一位前尼泊尔王军的少将，在贾南德拉二世握有绝对权力的时候，这位少将曾坚决的支持反独裁的第二次人民运动；还有一位笃信佛教的反战僧侣。

Erstwhile friend; our former glory; the once capital of the state; her quondam lover.

昔日的朋友；我们从前的荣誉；该国以前的首都；她昔日的恋人。

The tiny mustachioed orphan of the storm beams innocently over the shoulder of McKay's own dearest.... Old stuff about an endearing note which Chaplin receives by mistake.... Out to make his pile so that he can wed the Klondike Kitty Kelly .... More prospectors*.... The big strike; the search for the girl; the scene on board the ocean liner in which the stunted erstwhile prospector, now in purple and fine sable, lounges on the first cabin, his heart aswoon for a vanished barmaid ...

这个在风雪中孤苦无依的流浪汉，挑挑自己的小胡子，越过McKay的肩膀无辜得朝人家的小宝贝儿笑笑……卓别林靠着误会被美人接受，这情节又不足为奇……他用大把大把的钞票融化了Klondike的Kitty Kelly 的心……更多的采矿汉、混乱的打斗，寻找女孩；画面又转到了远洋客轮的甲板上，那个过去矮小的采矿汉现在已锦衣玉食，坐在头等舱，他为一个消失了的酒吧女郎而魂不守舍。

After his 1991 film La belle noiseuse French director and erstwhile Nouvelle Vague member Jacques Rivette again adapts local literary giant Balzac in Ne touchez pas la hache (Don't Touch the Axe).

继 1991 年的《美丽坏女人》后，法国导演及昔日新浪潮的其中一位主将李维特在他的新片《别碰斧头》中再次改编法国文学巨擘巴尔扎克的作品。

If punishment is to be part of a process whereby a person is restored fully to the life of the community, the community will need to demonstrate its reacceptance of the erstwhile offender.

如果要惩罚一个过程的一部分，即一个人是完全恢复对社会生活的，社会将需要证明其对昔日罪犯

I use an example quoted by Hu Jiaqi:"It is reported that America separates the DNA of a kind of virus by making use of genetic technology and combines it with another kind of DNA. Finally, they get a kind of virulent biological agent called a "pyrotoxin". Someone discloses in private that 20 grams of such a kind of biological agent could result in the global death of 6 billion people due to infection."

我在这里例举胡家奇所引用过的例子："据报道，美国利用转基因技术，将一种病毒的DNA分离出来，与另外一种DNA进行结合，拼结成一种剧毒的"热毒素"生物战剂，且私下有人透露，这种生物战剂只需20克，就可以导致全球60亿人全部感染死亡。"

Waiting, for the queers and the coons and the Reds and the Jews.

等待着疯子和黑人还有红色共产主义者还有犹太人