| 词汇 | wait |
| 释义 | wait verb[ I ] uk /weɪt/ us /weɪt/ A1 to allow time to go by, especially while staying in one place without doing very much, until someone comes, until something that you are expecting happens or until you can do something: 等待，等候;期盼，盼望 wait forI waited for her outside while she went in to see the doctor.她进去看病时我在外面等她。 The dentist kept me waiting for ages.牙医让我等了好久。 [ + to infinitive ]There were a lot of people waiting to use the phone.有很多人在等着打电话。 to wait waitWe need to wait in line for the tickets. wait forWe're waiting for the bus. awaitWe are awaiting the committee's decision. stayStay there until I get back. remainPlease remain in your seats until the plane has come to a complete stop. hang onHang on, I'll be ready in a minute. to be done or to happen at a later time: 推迟;耽搁 have to waitThe meeting will have to wait until tomorrow, because I'm too busy now.会议将不得不推迟到明天，因为我现在太忙了。 can't waitThe paperwork can't wait until tomorrow (= is urgent and must be done now).这些文书工作不能等到明天再做。 no waitingUK(USno standing) used on signs to mean vehicles are not allowed to park, even for short periods of time: 禁止停车 The sign by the side of the road said "no waiting!"路边的标志牌上写着“禁止停车”。 In hindsight, it would have been better to wait.事后看来，等一等会更好。 A small group of children waited outside the door.一小群孩子在门外等候。 She was very tense as she waited for the interview.在等待面试时她非常紧张。 I hate waiting for public transport.我讨厌等公交。 We can buy our duty-free while we're waiting at the airport.我们在机场候机时可以买些免税商品。 Staying and remaining abrupt halt be leftphrase closeted halt hang hold non-migrant non-rotating non-tenured outstay overstay sit spot stay behind stay in stay on stay putidiom stick stick around sticky You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Waiting Delaying and wasting time GrammarExpect, hope or wait? We use expect to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect in the following main patterns: … Expect We use expect to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect in the following main patterns: … Hope We use hope when we do not know whether something will happen or not but we want it to happen. We use hope in the following patterns: … Wait We use wait when we refer to letting time pass because we are expecting that something is going to happen. We use wait in the following main patterns: … Expect, hope or wait: typical errors We don’t use wait or wait for to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect: … Wait or wait for? Wait means ‘stay in the same place or not do something until something else happens’. We can use it with or without for: … Idiomscan't wait wait your turn wait a minute/moment/second wait and see wait at table(s) wait for it wait in the wings wait till/until ... (just) you wait Phrasal verbswait around wait behind wait for someone/something wait for someone wait something for someone wait in wait on someone/something wait on someone wait on something wait something out wait up wait noun[ S ] uk /weɪt/ us /weɪt/ B2 a period of time when you stay in one place until someone comes, or something happens, or until you can do something: 等待；等候，期待 have a waitWe had a three-hour wait before we could see the doctor.我们等了3个小时才看到医生。 The long wait for the doctor/to see the doctor really made me anxious.等医生看病等了那么长时间真让我焦急。 We had a long wait for the bus. The wait for the train was very boring. Waiting await backlogged bang around breath hang hang around hover loiter lounge lurking mark timeidiom mill mill around sit time and tide wait for no manidiom twiddle twiddle your thumbsidiom wait and seeidiom wait around wait for someone/something Idiomlie in wait wait | American Dictionarywait verb[ I/T ] us/weɪt/ to allow time to go by, esp. without doing much, until something happens or can happen: [ I ]I waited in the car. [ I ]Wait here for me – I’ll be back in a minute. [ I ]The dentist kept me waiting for ages. [ + to infinitive ]Several people are waiting to use the phone. [ T ]Please get in line and wait your turn like everyone else. If something waits, it is being delayed or is ready: [ I ]The meeting will have to wait until tomorrow. [ I ]An envelope was waiting for me when I got home. waitnoun[ U ]us/weɪt/ We had a three-hour wait at the airport. Idiomswait a minute wait and see wait on someone wait out someone or something wait (on) tables Examples of waitwait He had waited without moving, standing stock-still on the bank, peering into the water, hoping for another glimpse, a ripple in the water's surface even. The social realm does not remain idle, waiting for the international community to allocate attention and resources. The demand for choice was linked to the critique against the counties for rigid administration, unacceptably long waiting times for certain hospital treatments. An important objective of switching to activity-based payments was to try to shorten waiting lists and improve incentives for facilities to treat more patients. The child was instructed not to press any button while waiting for the cue. There can however be consequences for system latency since this approach requires waiting until after the gesture inputs have been processed to start speech recognition. A comparison of transurethral surgery with watchful waiting for moderate symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Study of agent-oriented methodologies shows that current methodologies offer little support for designing environments; a whole domain of work is waiting to be tackled. Very often and in many spheres it has been the case - in previous years as well - that individuals have simply waited for orders and instructions. Figure 1 illustrates the dramatic reduction in the times patients were waiting for radiotherapy treatment. The psychological trauma of waiting results in many patients electing for private referral. Many of the states are not waiting until the issue is resolved at the federal level and are developing their own approaches. Indicating that higher levels of equipment per 1000 new cases, fewer contours and a shorter time to simulate three fields may allow shorter waiting times. One man was unemployed while he waited for a hernia operation. If the transaction is ready for commit, the thread denies access to new readers and waits for all readers to vanish before updating the database. See all examples of wait These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withwaitwaitThese are words often used in combination with wait. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. average wait The averagewait is about six to nine months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 lengthy wait Now all but the simplest dental work must be referred, with a lengthy wait, for what is called prior approval. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 long wait Pharmacological intervention by the clinician resulted in a long walk to pharmacy and often a long wait for the medication. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with wait |
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