| 释义 |
Examples:The good things in life are worth waiting for—waiting room (for train, bus etc)—pull the bow without shooting (idiom from Mencius); ready and waiting for action—be kept waiting for an assignment or audience with a VIP—guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action—lit. guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits [idiom.]—hands tied and waiting for death [idiom.]—wait for (orders, a decision, a judgment)—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—be on the waiting list (for admission to a school)—wait for the opportune moment before taking action [idiom.]—Time and tide wait for no man [idiom.]— |