wait around

英 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]

美 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]

（长时间地）干等，空等

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 wait about


• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. I waited around to speak to the doctor.
     我干等着跟医生说话。
  3. ...the ghastly tedium of waiting about at the airport.
     在机场候机时的百无聊赖

双语例句

• I can't wait around here any longer.
  我不能再在这徘徊等下去了。
• You may be right, but we're not gonna wait around to find out.
  或许你是对的，但我们不能这样等待下去。
• If no message exists, the operation does not wait around for one; it simply prepares another Refresh Response with a new refresh interval period and returns that back to the caller.
  如果符合条件的消息不存在，操作并不会等待消息的出现。它只是简单地用一个新的刷新间隔周期来组装一个刷新响应并将它返回给调用者。
• Alright, if you want to wait around, that's fine. I'll get him myself.
  你如果不想管，好的，我自己把他找出来。
• 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？
• Don't wait around hoping for mom to get another sniffle.
  不要指望你妈妈又感冒。
• 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。
• So what* You want us to wait around forever?
  那又如何，你想让我们就这么呆着？
• 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。
• Success never comes to look for you while you wait around.
  如果消极等待，成功是永远不会来找你的。