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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Thankfully, he was not put off by the painting and they continued their relationship for a further 18 months until he proposed while they were holidaying in the south of France.
  不过幸好，迈克尔没有被这幅画吓到，他们继续交往了18个月，后来在他们一起去法国南部度假的时候，迈克尔向克洛伊求婚。
• 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。
• 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。
• Gary Jenkins, a portfolio manager at Synapse Investment Management, a hedge fund, added: Now the banker who is holidaying in Tuscany can be just as clued in from his villa on the Mediterranean as he can by being in the office.
  对冲基金SynapseInvestmentManagement的投资组合经理加里•詹金斯（GaryJenkins）补充道：如今，在意大利托斯卡纳休假的银行家，可以在地中海岸的别墅里获取信息报告，如同他在办公室的情况一样。
• 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。
• 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。
• Later that evening Ms Clifford, who was holidaying with her friend Fiona Fay, went to Gus O'Connors Pub in Doolin, where locals whole-heartedly agreed with their diagnosis.
  桑德拉和一起来旅游的朋友菲奥娜后来去了杜林当地的一家酒吧，在那里的当地人都真心地赞同桑德拉的看法，认为耶稣显灵的照片是真实的。