wait around
英 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]
美 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]
(长时间地)干等,空等
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB (长时间地)干等,空等
If youwait aroundorwait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.- The attacker may have been waiting around for an opportunity to strike...
袭击者也许一直都在等待着动手的机会。 - I waited around to speak to the doctor.
我干等着跟医生说话。 - ...the ghastly tedium of waiting about at the airport.
在机场候机时的百无聊赖
- The attacker may have been waiting around for an opportunity to strike...
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 wait about
双语例句
- It's wrong for you to just have to wait around for an answer.
让你苦苦等候一个答覆是不对的。 - Don't wait around for your manager to give it to you on her own.
不要空等着你的经理主动给你加薪。 - It was very interesting but the actors had to wait around a lot.
拍摄很有趣,但是有很多演员在周围等着拍摄。 - We have to wait around for the lingerers to leave before we can close the museum.
我们必须等逗留的人离开以后再关闭博物馆。 - Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you, any happiness you want to get, you have to make it yourself.
不要总是等别人同你一起快乐,任何幸福都得自己来创造。 - Don't wait around hoping for mom to get another sniffle.
不要指望你妈妈又感冒。 - I waited around to speak to the doctor.
我干等着跟医生说话。 - And you must wait around for it until then.
你必须一直等到书完成为止。 - I'm not going to wait around another year.
我不会再等一年了。 - We can be strong and career-driven but we still have to wait around and hope a man asks us out in order to go on a date?
我们可以坚强,可以发展自己的事业,但我们还必须左顾右盼,指望男生来约我们出去约会?