holding pattern
保持模式,保持模式的人,控股模式
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- : a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- : a state or period in which no progress or change is made or planned.
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Families across the region looking to switch from in-person to virtual learning during the school year now are in a holding pattern.
“We’re in a holding pattern,” said Brenda Wolff, president of the county school board, the day before the guidance was released.
That holding pattern is unlikely to remain in place forever.
San Diego though is still in a holding pattern with its Sports Arena project.
All of which leaves Schumer in something of a holding pattern.
When we had that meeting in the Caribbean, Jeffrey was holding his own and not only was he a pleasant host, he was pleasant guy.
And in so many of these events, the pattern of “blame the victim” was quickly in evidence.
After walking block after block holding that container, he had suddenly discarded it and was now clutching a gun.
He stood holding his 21-month-old son, Jamison, his wife, Kelly, at his side.
I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.
She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
Their glances met, she holding him always at arm's length by that grip upon his shoulders, a grip that was firm and nervous.
Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.
He was holding his big head high in the air, like a giraffe, and gazing proudly about him as he ran.