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bide time

/bahyd/US // baɪd //UK // (baɪd) //

韬光养晦,缓兵之计,拖延时间,韬晦

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bid·ed or bode; bid·ed or bid; bid·ing.

    • : Archaic. to endure; bear.
    • : Obsolete. to encounter.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bid·ed or bode; bid·ed or bid; bid·ing.

    • : to dwell; abide; wait; remain.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inwait
Synonyms
await等待,等候,等待着,等待的delay延迟,拖延,拖延时间,延误expect期待,期待着,期望,期待中hang悬挂,悬挂式,挂,悬空linger流连忘返,徘徊,徘徊不前remain仍然是,剩余的,残留的,剩余stand by站在,支持,站在旁边,经由stay逗留,保持,逗留时间,留stick around坚持下去,坚守,坚守岗位,坚持不懈watch观察,监视,钟表,观察一下abide恪守,忍受,停留,持续anticipate预计,预期,预测,预见bide滨江,滨崎步,滨州,滨江区dally调戏,调皮捣蛋,调剂,调侃foresee预知,预见,预测,预见的stall摊位,档期,档口,摊开tarry耽搁,耽搁了,耽误时间,耽搁时间bide one's time韬光养晦,缓兵之计,韬晦,缓期执行cool it冷却它,凉拌,冷静,冷静下来fill time填补时间,填充时间,填写时间,填补时间上的空白hang around闲逛,闲晃,闲晃着,闲混hang onto your hat抓紧你的帽子,抓紧帽子,抓紧时间hang out闲逛,挂出,玩耍,闲逛的时候hold back扣留,拖后腿,抵制,扣留住hold everything包罗万象,万事具备,万事俱备hold on坚持下去,坚持,坚持住,把握住hold the phone拿着电话,握住电话,拿着手机,持电话hole up坑蒙拐骗,坑坑洼洼,坑洞,坑坑洼洼的keep shirt on穿着衬衫,保持衬衫,穿上衬衫,穿上衣服lie in wait打埋伏,埋伏,打埋伏的,打埋伏的人lie low隐藏,隐藏起来,隐蔽look for寻觅,找寻,寻找,寻寻觅觅look forward to盼望着,期待,期待着,瞩望mark time标记时间,纪念时间,记时,计时put on hold搁置,搁置的,放置,暂缓执行save it保存它,拯救它,挽救它,保存起来sit tight坐好了,坐稳了,坐好,坐立不安sit up for坐起来,坐起来看,坐起来吃,坐起来的stay up for坚守,熬夜,熬到,坚守岗位sweat it汗水,挥汗如雨,流汗了,汗流浃背

Examples

  • In 1960, at 26, she sat for months in the forests of Tanzania, biding her time until chimpanzees accepted her presence and she could observe them up close.

  • The Taliban could see how eager the Americans were to get out and so bided its time.

  • Blanchard will keep caring and searching and biding her time for the right one, and Delfina will keep vigilant about vacuum cleaners.

  • So we worked to first bring up other non controversial bills or bills that had bipartisan support, partly because we wanted them approved but also to bide more time.

  • So, whether they’re testing third-party cookie alternatives or still biding their time, many publishers are protective of their precious audience data and want to make sure it will be valued fairly by identity tech firms.

  • While Democrats bide their time, Republicans are already spending time and building operations in the Hawkeye State.

  • Rather, one would think now would be an ideal moment for a grateful ally to ramp it down and bide their time.

  • Bide your time with some of the most impressive public displays of Les Miserables love.

  • If a culture has to be grown, then you have to bide your time while cell division takes its course.

  • The bloodthirsty Young Turks of Bohane bide their time, waiting in the shadows to shank and supplant their revelry-addled elders.

  • That's going to make things lots easier for my scheme, 'but I'll 'bide a wee' before I spring it on the Pater.

  • He was perfectly contented to bide his time, remembering that adage: "All things come to him who waits."

  • I am not sure that she thinks of me otherwise than as a grown-up brotherbut I will bide my time.

  • Let him tak a spring on his ain fiddle, says a proverb that illustrates the coolness with which Donald will bide his time.

  • But he could hardly have kept it up, lest the wind should change and it should bide with him, as the old women say.