wait

1 Inside is a wicker basket, full of crumpled towels and bedsheets, waiting to be washed.

2 David had wanted to go sooner but while they were running tests Owen had asked him to wait.

3 Donald Catt, already irritated over having to wait in line, completely loses his cool when the barista doesn’t know how to make the drink the way he likes it.

4 “If you would please follow me, Sheriff Snyder is waiting to meet you,” he says, completely ignoring me.

5 He waited, and in a moment she was at the kitchen window with a nimbus of light around her head.

6 Then I sit on the tiny concrete hearth, thawing out by the fire and waiting for Gale.

7 If you listen to everybody who claims to have seen Jeffrey-Maniac Magee that first day, there must have been ten thousand people and a parade of fire trucks waiting for him at the town limits.

8 Then he sat down against the side of the crate, arms around his knees, listening to her breathing, listening for sounds of pursuit, and waiting for her to wake.

9 I wait for her to say something more, anything more.

10 She smiled, not because of the free game waiting for her, but because Harriet would be waiting for her, too.

11 He waited nervously for a moment before returning to the graph.

12 There'll be a car waiting for you...

会有辆汽车等你。

13 I waited a long time for a glimpse of Coral Cove, but finally the sun burned away the fog.

14 All we can do now is wait and hope.

我们现在所能做的就是等候和期待。

15 “We have a goose,” the old man said, “which we ought to have given your lordships. But if you will only wait, it shall be done at once.”

16 As I waited for the water to heat, I looked out the window.

17 “I know this is a big day that many of you have been waiting for—perhaps even rehearsing for.”

18 When we came home we had a meal waiting for us...

我们到家时，有一顿美餐正等着我们享用。

19 For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

20 Feathers runs her spectrometer over a rock and waits for it to show its contents.

1 停车

P call stop parking waiting calling park gong

2 延搁

behindhand table

3 搁置

stand table stall shelve pigeonhole back-burner kick into the long grass touch kick into the long into touch in mothballs on the table sit on on one side to one side on the shelf hold over in abeyance

4 当侍者

serve at table

5 希望

desirous hope wish thought expectation prospect will like want trust

6 等

notch pause await and so forth such as e waiting magnitude ex- com- ab- waiting woman

7 期待

expectative expectant hope expectation anticipation expectancy esperance look expect attend anticipate await contemplate tarry Messianic relish promise oneself bargain on bargain for hoped-for plan look to for look to to do be hot to trot look for look forward to count upon Look forward to watch out for

8 护卫

escort squire gallant

9 接待

receive serve salute

10 待用

live

11 期望

anticipant anticipative view thought prospect expectancy expect bargain on coming expectant optative hope trust anticipation watch count wish envisage in anticipation

12 盼望

expectant longed-for expectation weary hope expect trust looked-for relish desirous long hunger ache look calculate Look forward to anticipation expectancy reckon on look forward to wish look for longing anticipate wish for

13 密切注意

unwinking watch rivet stand over

14 暂缓处理

put on one side

15 等待

watch expect bide tarry attend await on the hook waiting stay keep watch for wait for watch for hold abide hang around in a holding pattern wait on hang about hold on expectative waiting woman

16 侍奉

ministrant ministry attend minister

17 暂停

check suspension pause halt moratorium intermission breathing-space stop suspend suspensive suspense truce stay rest recess adjourn outspan intermit

18 延缓

delay postpone defer stay table suspend waive reprieve stave off put back

19 伺候

serving minister

20 等着

await

21 准备好

up go ready fixed prepared ripe prest win train prime compose groom geared up set fit poised yare prepare poise in readiness of be set to do ready for be ready to

22 侍候

waiting service attendance serve stay help attend tend

23 延迟

tardy hold delay lag retardation lagging holdback stay reserve detain retard

24 在手边

to hand

25 迫不及待

champ at the bit

26 迟延

retard tarry slacken

27 侍从

outrunner minister dependent gentleman retainer livery chamberlain servitor famulus squire liveryman

28 用复数

dingbat work other good thing service part game down school line second list lead hour step store future content art due term oil picture dog fund sport supply letter round attention load ball stick bag custom glass lesson quarter god chain wave relation yard manner bowl bone circumstance rain yellow depth tap affair dozen consequence shade shake bean chamber mystery tail suck desert acre nerve sail hop premise horror rope stake gut sweat colour mesh Jack bearing cheer compliment elder scrap stripe vibration acoustic ethnic fry making preliminary marble creep firework honour dart flick swarm goggle cloak sounding domino precinct checker fixing folly thematic shiver Trot meander shudder eyeglass lancer frill draught heuristic skittle gob polemic sullen nicety rounder gape dungaree histrionic unmentionable macrobiotic weeper hysteric tenpin bedcover unpleasantry furbelow vesper pantaloon megrim fiddlestick ninepin escallop agogic knuckle-bone

29 耽搁

detention defer tarry slow procrastinate shove by hold-up delay detain hold up keep put back set back arrear procrastination cunctation tarriance loiter

30 服侍

ministry attendance waiting ministration tendance ministrant attend lackey valet serving serve tend minister waiting woman

31 拖延

driegh dragging dilatory dreich dree back stall arrear deferment arrearage drag-out temporization drag lag linger defer procrastinate temporize drive spin shunt sidetrack daff lingering willy-nilly delay procrastination go-around protraction foot-dragging spread prolongate hang prolong

32 埋伏

trap ambush ambuscade couch lurk snook stakeout bushwhack lie in ambush lay wait for lay for perdue perdu lurch

33 可得到

open odd late-night obtainable there go open up

34 拜访

call visit look in

35 期盼

expectation relish look forward to

36 滞留

linger tarry

37 停留

lodgment stop tarry won

38 照顾

consideration attend see after

39 推迟

stay retard cool reserve suspend stall scrub defer delay postponement fear postpone remit adjourn procrastinate mothball stand over suspension park on hold push back put off stave off hold off put back set back hold over

40 可使用

open accessible operational operative operable on offer

41 谒见

audience

42 等候

waiting sit stay tend await abide wait for watch for on hold watch bide tarry meet wait on hang on hold on watch out for waiting woman