at the ready

随时待命随时准备随时准备就绪蓄势待发

at the ready 的定义

  1. Available for immediate use, as in Umbrellas at the ready, we were prepared to brave the storm. This idiom was originally a military term in which the ready denoted the position of a firearm prepared to be raised and aimed or fired. [First half of 1800s]

at the ready 近义词

at the ready

等同于 ready

更多at the ready例句

  1. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  2. Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”
  3. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  4. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  5. The U.S. military just unveiled a new effort to get Iraqis ready to battle ISIS.
  6. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  7. It secures in many cases, at least, a ready compliance with a large part of the discipline enforced.
  8. Later on, I believe, a child is wont to have his favourite colour, and to be ready to defend it against the preferences of others.
  9. The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
  10. Let your orders for preparation go round tonight, so that your knaves may be ready to set out betimes to-morrow.