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waiting

/wey-ting/US // ˈweɪ tɪŋ //

等待,等候,等待中,等待着

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a period of waiting; pause, interval, or delay.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving or being in attendance: waiting man;waiting maid;waiting woman.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbpause, rest
Forms: waitings
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

  • Kornbluh of GMFUS says this tension is what leads Facebook and other social media platforms to err on the side of waiting—meaning harmful posts can earn millions of views before any action is taken.

  • My own doctors advocated for watchful waiting, which is where I’m headed.

  • CSL employees say the checks detailed by CSL’s spokesman happen long after patients enter the centers, sometimes after they’ve signed in, talked with staff and sat in a waiting room before screening.

  • Even as agencies are publishing their plans to be more inclusive and diverse or creating new diversity and inclusion executive positions, some agency execs fear that agencies are simply playing the waiting game with lengthy plans.

  • After 50 years of waiting, San Diego is about to retake its seat as dealer in a high-stakes game with potential power providers.

  • Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

  • A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.

  • The first day of Liberty, I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in.

  • Instead, black models are required to remain meekly, silently off stage, waiting for a turn that may never come.

  • In a show about single women, Sex and The City was always in a rush to get to the altar—and with a man there waiting.

  • Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

  • We all rose to our feet, and he shook hands with everybody without waiting to be introduced.

  • At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.

  • After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.

  • Sam sat opposite him in perfect silence, waiting, with eager curiosity, for the termination of the scene.