wait on

英 [weɪt ɒn]

美 [weɪt ɑːn]

等待（某事发生）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 等待（某事发生）
  If youare waiting onsomething, you are waiting for it to happen, for example before you do or decide anything.
  1. Since then I've been waiting on events...
     自那以后，我就一直在观望事情的发展。
  2. We cannot wait on the government to make changes at its own pace.
     我们不可能等待政府按照它自己的步调作出改变。

英英释义

verb

• work for or be a servant to
  1. May I serve you?
  2. She attends the old lady in the wheelchair
  3. Can you wait on our table, please?
  4. Is a salesperson assisting you?
  5. The minister served the King for many years
  Synonym:serveattend toattendassist

双语例句

• He gained maturity from being on loan and we have to wait on and trust that.
  他从租借中获取了经验，我们必须等待并抱有信心。
• In Linux, there is no way to do a timed wait on a waitpid() call.
  在Linux中，使用waitpid（）调用无法等待限定的时间。
• Its have grape, blackberry, La Mei and plum to wait on behalf of the fruit.
  其代表水果有葡萄、黑莓、蓝莓和李子等。
• They all wait on the king.
  他们都在侍奉国王。
• This servant will wait on your guests.
  这个服务员将为你的客人服务。
• We'll have to wait on line for40 minutes.
  我们还需要等40分钟才能开打。
• Make your own tea. I don't see why I should wait on you hand and foot.
  你自己沏茶。我不明白为什么我该样样伺候你。
• Users can keep entering information and the application isn't going to wait on the server.
  用户可以继续输入信息，应用程序不会等待服务器。
• We wait on your reply to our letter.
  我们等着你们的回信。
• Now wait on orders, please repair fishing tools!
  现在等措施，请修理一下打捞工具！