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wait around

英 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]

美 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]

(长时间地)干等,空等

柯林斯词典

    in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 wait about

  • PHRASAL VERB (长时间地)干等,空等
    If youwait aroundorwait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.
    1. The attacker may have been waiting around for an opportunity to strike...
      袭击者也许一直都在等待着动手的机会。
    2. I waited around to speak to the doctor.
      我干等着跟医生说话。
    3. ...the ghastly tedium of waiting about at the airport.
      在机场候机时的百无聊赖

双语例句

  • We can be strong and career-driven but we still have to wait around and hope a man asks us out in order to go on a date?
    我们可以坚强,可以发展自己的事业,但我们还必须左顾右盼,指望男生来约我们出去约会?
  • We encourage people not to wait around until they are seriously ill before coming to see us.
    我们鼓励人们不要等到病的不行了才来找我们。
  • It's wrong for you to just have to wait around for an answer.
    让你苦苦等候一个答覆是不对的。
  • If no message exists, the operation does not wait around for one; it simply prepares another Refresh Response with a new refresh interval period and returns that back to the caller.
    如果符合条件的消息不存在,操作并不会等待消息的出现。它只是简单地用一个新的刷新间隔周期来组装一个刷新响应并将它返回给调用者。
  • You say his expecting me to drive him to see the meeting and wait around till he's finished? I'll see him damned first.
    你是说他想让我开车送他去开会并等到他把会开完了吗?让他见鬼去吧。
  • Even better, the request is sent asynchronously, which means that your JavaScript code ( and the user) doesn't wait around on the server to respond.
    更好的是,请求是异步发送的,就是说JavaScript代码(和用户)不用等待服务器的响应。
  • Don't wait around for your manager to give it to you on her own.
    不要空等着你的经理主动给你加薪。
  • Success never comes to look for you while you wait around.
    如果消极等待,成功是永远不会来找你的。
  • This story tells us: never wait around for chance occurrences, as hard work is always a better way of life.
    这个故事告诉我们:不能坐等永远坐等机会自己出现,努力工作,始终才是更好的生活态度。
  • We have to wait around for the lingerers to leave before we can close the museum.
    我们必须等逗留的人离开以后再关闭博物馆。