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waiting room

/wey-ting room, room/US // ˈweɪ tɪŋ ˌrum, ˌrʊm //

等候室,等待室,候机室,候车室

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a room for the use of persons waiting, as in a railroad station or a physician's office.

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Examples

  • You’ll then see a screen where you can choose the date and time of the event, set up a passcode and waiting room for extra security, and choose who you’d like to invite.

  • I am living in several different waiting rooms simultaneously, having no idea, in some respects, what I’m even waiting for.

  • When he appeared in the waiting room, Derkach looked relaxed, much younger than his 53 years.

  • Wu’s Jenny is seen waiting interminably in an unusual waiting room, in an apparent costume featuring wings.

  • You can periodically do a survey while in a waiting room or watching TV — every mile counts.

  • Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.

  • 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.

  • One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.

  • Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.

  • The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.

  • In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

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

  • Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.

  • His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.