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

• Former ITV transmission controller Mr Christie, 61, fell in love with the area while holidaying with his Peruvian wife Rosa.
  克里斯蒂以前的工作是前英国独立电视台的线路传输控制人员，现年61岁的他和秘鲁妻子丽莎来这里度假时，爱上了这片区域。
• Holidaying in Devon, the Lake District or Cornwall means you can expect a call whereas very few bosses would disturb a holiday in New Zealand, the Caribbean or Thailand.
  你要是在德文郡、湖区或康沃尔郡旅行的话，你就等着老板打你电话吧。但如果你跑到了新西兰、加勒比海岛或泰国，那么一般来说老板就不会打扰你的假期。
• My parents are holidaying in Spain this year.
  今年我父母要到西班牙度假。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And Mrs Merkel, while holidaying in sulden in South Tyrol, seems to have found the time ( after reading our memo on how to break up the euro), and the ready wit, to reply.
  而正在南蒂罗尔的索尔达（sulden）山村度假的默克尔总理，似乎也有时间（在阅读了我们有关怎样解散欧元区的备忘录后）来机智应答。
• 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 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。
• Alternatively, maybe you met while holidaying in Thailand so why not consider a Thai theme or were proposed to in Paris and decided on a French theme.
  或者，也许你见过，而在泰国度假，为什么不考虑一个主题或泰国提出了在巴黎和法国主题决定。