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词汇 wait-and-see
释义

wait and see


idiom
C1
to wait to discover what will happen: 等等看;等着瞧
No decision will be made until next year, so you'll just have to wait and see.得等到明年才会有决定,所以你只好等等看了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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hang around
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twiddle
twiddle your thumbsidiom
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wait for someone/something

wait and see | American Dictionary


wait and see


idiom
to be patient until you see what happens:
No decision will be made until next year, so you’ll just have to wait and see.

wait-and-see | Business English


wait-and-see
adjective[ before noun ]
ukus
a wait-and-see situation is one in which someone is not sure what to do and decides to wait before taking any action:
Many investors are taking a wait-and-see approach while there is still uncertainty in the currency markets.

Examples of wait and see


wait and see
Next, the wait-and-see hypothesis considers the same variables as for the convergence hypothesis, but the inequality restrictions run in the opposite direction.
Second, in assessing appropriateness, the consequences of alternate procedures, including a wait-and-see approach, should be considered and documented.
The ' wait-and-see ' formulation of the encoding and marking theory can only be tested through future research.
These two variance results are at odds with the convergence story and are consistent with the wait-and-see hypothesis.
More plausible explanations are the wait-and-see and the two-of-kind hypotheses.
He uses a wait-and-see device, namely he does not use subordinate clauses at all until unambiguous information is available.
In other words, wait-and-see behavior predicts that the reduction in short-run volatility was only temporary at the time of the euro's introduction and thereafter foresees an increase in volatility.
I believe it is taking too much of a wait-and-see attitude.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
This cannot be a justification, though, for continuing with a policy of 'wait-and-see'.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The wait-and-see attitude which some businesses are adopting is unsatisfactory.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Both the major parties are in a wait-and-see situation.
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Hansard archive

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I am not saying that we should adopt a wait-and-see attitude.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
There is too much of a wait-and-see attitude towards capital allocations for local authorities.
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The decline of our coastal zones is often a result of this reprehensible wait-and-see policy.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There is no room for tardiness, no room for a wait-and-see approach.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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