loaf的解释

1. a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
2. a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape;

   "meat loaf"
   "sugar loaf"
   "a loaf of cheese"
   

1. be lazy or idle;

   "Her son is just bumming around all day"
   

2. be about;

   "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"
   "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
   

1.一条（面包）
Aloaf of bread is bread which has been shaped and baked in one piece. It is usually large enough for more than one person and can be cut into slices.

e.g. ...aloaf of crusty bread.
一条硬皮面包
e.g. ...freshly baked loaves.
新鲜出炉的面包

2.游荡；闲逛；虚掷光阴
If youloaf, you stand or wait in a place, not doing anything interesting or useful.

e.g. Soldiers loafed at street corners.
士兵们在街角逛荡。

• a loaf of bread一条面包
• a loaf of cheese一大块干酪

• loaf contentedly满足地混日子
• loaf corruptly腐败地虚度
• loaf disgracefully不光彩地虚度
• loaf dreamily〔drunkenly〕醉生梦死
• loaf enjoyably快乐地虚度
• loaf idly游手好闲地闲逛
• loaf wastefully挥霍地度日
• loaf about〔around〕游手好闲
• loaf away虚度
• loaf away one's time虚度光阴

• loaf about游手好闲
• loaf at在…闲逛
• loaf on在…上不认真
• loaf through虚度
• loaf through life虚度年华

• He shuts the door; yawns; and loafs across to the sofa.

  出自：G. B. Shaw

• He dressed in his slacks and a sweater and loafed while waiting.

  出自：M. J. Bruccoli

• He was a poet and preferred loafing about under trees with a bottle of laudanum.

  出自：D. Adams

1. loaf的基本意思是“虚度光阴”,指某人懒懒散散地混日子,仿佛无所事事,常含轻蔑的意味。
2. loaf可用作及物动词,但主要用作不及物动词,常与介词about连用。