| 释义 |
wait verb—待 v (often used) 等待 v (often used) Examples:wait and see (who is right)—wait for (orders, a decision, a judgment)—The meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten—lit. settling accounts after the autumn harvest (idiom); wait until the time is ripe to settle accounts—wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy—wait for action after having accumulated power, energy etc—sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate—wait for the opportunity—sit and await success or failure (idiom); to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides—lit. wipe one's eyes and wait (idiom); to wait and see—crouch low and bend forward (esp. in hiding or in wait)—conceal one's abilities and wait (idiom); to lie low and await the opportune moment—zero wait state (computing)—Time and tide wait for no man [idiom.]—wait for the opportune moment before taking action [idiom.]— |