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
- 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。 - And you must wait around for it until then.
你必须一直等到书完成为止。 - You can wait around to be offered the perfect job or you can go out there and create it for yourself.
你可以等待完美工作自己送上门来，或者主动出击为自己创造这样的机会。 - We have to wait around for a search warrant?
我们要留下等搜查令吗？ - I'm not going to wait around another year.
我不会再等一年了。 - Even better, the request is sent asynchronously, which means that your JavaScript code ( and the user) doesn't wait around on the server to respond.
更好的是，请求是异步发送的，就是说JavaScript代码（和用户）不用等待服务器的响应。 - Show the visitor in as soon as he arrives. Don't make him wait around in the corridor.
客人一到就让他进来，不要让他在走廊等着。 - I waited around to speak to the doctor.
我干等着跟医生说话。 - I couldn't afford to be picky if I preferred not to wait around for a couple hours after getting off work.
如果下班后我能选择不用等上几个小时我是不会挑剔的。 - 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。