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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - I waited around to speak to the doctor.
我干等着跟医生说话。 - I'm not going to wait around another year.
我不会再等一年了。 - We encourage people not to wait around until they are seriously ill before coming to see us.
我们鼓励人们不要等到病的不行了才来找我们。 - 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。 - And you must wait around for it until then.
你必须一直等到书完成为止。 - 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。 - This story tells us: never wait around for chance occurrences, as hard work is always a better way of life.
这个故事告诉我们：不能坐等永远坐等机会自己出现，努力工作，始终才是更好的生活态度。