wait around
英 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]
美 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]
（长时间地）干等，空等
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB (长时间地)干等，空等
If youwait aroundorwait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.- The attacker may have been waiting around for an opportunity to strike...
袭击者也许一直都在等待着动手的机会。 - I waited around to speak to the doctor.
我干等着跟医生说话。 - ...the ghastly tedium of waiting about at the airport.
在机场候机时的百无聊赖
- The attacker may have been waiting around for an opportunity to strike...
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 wait about
双语例句
- Since the code isn't going to wait around for the server, you'll need to let the server know what to do so you can respond to it.
因为代码没有等待服务器，必须让服务器知道怎么做以便您能作出响应。 - Why not have his accomplices wait around the corner in a cargo van?
而不是让他同伙坐着货车上等在角落？ - Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you, any happiness you want to get, you have to make it yourself.
不要总是等别人同你一起快乐，任何幸福都得自己来创造。 - And you must wait around for it until then.
你必须一直等到书完成为止。 - You can wait around to be offered the perfect job or you can go out there and create it for yourself.
你可以等待完美工作自己送上门来，或者主动出击为自己创造这样的机会。 - Success never comes to look for you while you wait around.
如果消极等待，成功是永远不会来找你的。 - Don't wait around for your manager to give it to you on her own.
不要空等着你的经理主动给你加薪。 - We can be strong and career-driven but we still have to wait around and hope a man asks us out in order to go on a date?
我们可以坚强，可以发展自己的事业，但我们还必须左顾右盼，指望男生来约我们出去约会？ - Will you please wait around for me?
请在附近等我好吗？ - How does it feel to wait around for a mule to shite out a condom full of drugs?
你怎么认为就这样空等贩毒的人就会拿出一个装满毒品的避孕套？