erstwhile [ˈɜ:rstwaɪl]

例句:

• His hair was frizzed and much lighter than erstwhile.
  来自W. Golding
• He fled to America with Phyllis Burton, an erstwhile friend of his wife's.
  他和他妻子以前的一个朋友菲莉丝·伯顿一起逃往美国。
  
• His erstwhile friends turned against him.
  他先前的朋友转而与他作对。
  
• Erstwhile workers may have become managers.
  过去的工人可能已经成了经理。
  
• Wenger's success has created its own impossibly high expectations from erstwhile worshippers.
  来自THETIMES
• The conservative will find the practice of politics as difficult as he has erstwhile found its theory.
  来自R. Scruton