wait around

英 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]

美 [weɪt əˈraʊnd]

（长时间地）干等，空等

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 wait about


• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. I waited around to speak to the doctor.
     我干等着跟医生说话。
  3. ...the ghastly tedium of waiting about at the airport.
     在机场候机时的百无聊赖

双语例句

• Show the visitor in as soon as he arrives. Don't make him wait around in the corridor.
  客人一到就让他进来，不要让他在走廊等着。
• 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？
• And you must wait around for it until then.
  你必须一直等到书完成为止。
• 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？
• It was very interesting but the actors had to wait around a lot.
  拍摄很有趣，但是有很多演员在周围等着拍摄。
• 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。
• Even better, the request is sent asynchronously, which means that your JavaScript code ( and the user) doesn't wait around on the server to respond.
  更好的是，请求是异步发送的，就是说JavaScript代码（和用户）不用等待服务器的响应。
• You say his expecting me to drive him to see the meeting and wait around till he's finished? I'll see him damned first.
  你是说他想让我开车送他去开会并等到他把会开完了吗？让他见鬼去吧。
• I can't wait around here any longer.
  我不能再在这徘徊等下去了。