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
- If no message exists, the operation does not wait around for one; it simply prepares another Refresh Response with a new refresh interval period and returns that back to the caller.
如果符合条件的消息不存在，操作并不会等待消息的出现。它只是简单地用一个新的刷新间隔周期来组装一个刷新响应并将它返回给调用者。 - 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。 - 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。 - I couldn't afford to be picky if I preferred not to wait around for a couple hours after getting off work.
如果下班后我能选择不用等上几个小时我是不会挑剔的。 - We have to wait around for the lingerers to leave before we can close the museum.
我们必须等逗留的人离开以后再关闭博物馆。 - 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。 - Alright, if you want to wait around, that's fine. I'll get him myself.
你如果不想管，好的，我自己把他找出来。 - 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？ - 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？ - I can't wait around here any longer.
我不能再在这徘徊等下去了。