| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_to-wait |
| 释义 | to waitThese words refer to stopping what you are doing and staying in one place until something else happens or someone arrives. The most common verb for this is wait. Wait implies that you have stopped a process or activity because another thing needs to happen first. We need to wait in line for the tickets. Please wait until your number is called. Go ahead and take the call - I'll wait. If you are expecting someone or something to arrive, or something to happen, you can use the phrasal verb wait for. We're waiting for the bus. The future waits for no one. I'm just waiting for my girlfriend to come downstairs. In formal contexts, await means the same as wait for. We are awaiting the committee's decision. Stay and, in slightly more formal contexts, remain are used when someone waits in a place until something else happens. Stay there until I get back. Please remain in your seats until the plane has come to a complete stop. If you want to tell someone to wait, you can use the phrase hang on. Hang on, I'll be ready in a minute. If people are waiting in a place, usually for no obvious reason, you can use the informal phrasal verb hang around or the verb loiter. There were a lot of teenagers hanging around outside the shopping centre. A bunch of men were loitering outside the pub. If people are waiting in a line to buy something, the verb line up is used. People were lining up for tickets. |
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