holidaying

英 [ˈhɒlədeɪɪŋ]

美 [ˈhɑːlədeɪɪŋ]

v.  度假; 休假
holiday的现在分词

现在分词：holidaying　

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （外出度过的）假期
  Aholidayis a period of time during which you relax and enjoy yourself away from home. People sometimes refer to their holiday as theirholidays.
  1. I've just come back from a holiday in the United States...
     我刚从美国度假回来。
  2. We rang Duncan to ask where he was going on holiday...
     我们打电话给邓肯，问他要去哪里度假。
  3. Ischia is a popular seaside holiday resort...
     伊斯基亚是个很受欢迎的海滨度假胜地。
  4. We're going to Scotland for our holidays.
     我们要去苏格兰度假。

in AM, use 美国英语用 vacation


• See also:New Year's Day is a public holiday throughout Britain...He invited her to spend the Fourth of July holiday at his summer home on Fire Island...Bad weather has caused dozens of flight cancellations over the holiday weekend.bank holiday
• N-PLURAL （学校的）假期
  The holidaysare the time when children do not have to go to school.
  1. ...the first day of the school holidays.
     学校放假的第一天

in AM, use 美国英语用 vacation


• N-UNCOUNT （不上班的）休假期
  If you have a particular number of days' or weeks'holiday, you do not have to go to work for that number of days or weeks.
  1. Every worker will be entitled to four weeks' paid holiday a year.
     每位工人每年都能享受4周的带薪休假。

in AM, use 美国英语用 vacation


• VERB （外出）度假
  If youare holidayingin a place away from home, you are on holiday there.
  1. Sampling the local cuisine is one of the delights of holidaying abroad...
     品尝当地菜肴是海外度假的乐趣之一。
  2. Vacant rooms on the campus were being used by holidaying families.
     校园里的闲置宿舍住着一些度假的家庭。

in AM, use 美国英语用 vacation


Take care not to confuseholidayandholidays.
注意不要混淆 holiday 和 holidays。

双语例句

• Kitty is holidaying with her family in New York now.
  基蒂现在正和她的家人在纽约度假。
• And vice versa on our Fridays when we ring up and already our contacts are holidaying on their Saturdays, he told Radio New Zealand on Friday.
  同样我们周五打电话时对方也不会已经外出度假过周末了。
• The chain's two Hong Kong restaurants are booked solid over the New Year season, and Ms. Chui says demand is largely fueled by mainland Chinese diners holidaying in the city.
  在春节期间，福临门香港两家酒楼的订餐情况都很不错，而据Chui表示，需求在很大程度上是由到香港过节的大陆食客推动的。
• Every rich country has its own way of holidaying ( except Japan, where proper holidays barely exist, and the US, where they exist chiefly for children).
  每一个富裕国家都有自己独有的休假方式。不过日本和美国除外，日本几乎不存在像样的假期，而在美国假期存在的目的主要是为了孩子。
• My parents are holidaying in Spain this year.
  今年我父母要到西班牙度假。
• Sampling the local cuisine is one of the delights of holidaying abroad
  品尝当地菜肴是海外度假的乐趣之一。
• If one took any notice of those killjoys, one would never do anything fun, such as importing dangerous wild animals, holidaying in Yemen or lending moral support to a repressive superpower.
  如果理会英国外交部那帮扫兴的人，就永远干不了好玩的事情，比如进口危险的野生动物、在也门度假，或者向一个专制的超级大国给予道义支持。
• Some of his relatives were germanophiles, regarding the Nazi period as a terrible aberration and holidaying often in the Federal Republic.
  朱特的部分亲戚是亲德分子，认为纳粹时期只是一次严重的过失，并且还经常到德国度假。
• They're holidaying somewhere in the caribbean.
  他们正在加勒比海的某个地方度假。
• The president, a black belt in judo, was also depicted in fighting garb, fixing the engine of his car or holidaying in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
  小朋侪们还刻画了获得柔道黑腰带级别的普京总统身着柔道服的样子边幅，以及他补缀汽车策念头和在黑海索契调理地度假的情况。