waiting

基本解釋

Sorry to have kept you waiting.
對不起，讓你久等了。
《新英漢大辭典》
There is nothing to be gained by merely waiting.
光靠等待是什么也得不到的。
《新英漢大辭典》
The railway station clock ticked away the hours of waiting.
火車站的時(shí)鐘滴答作響，等候的時(shí)間在一點(diǎn)一點(diǎn)過去。

In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint.
He's been waiting and waiting for his season due so that he can ripen into a powerful Orphic poet.
他一直在等待著自己繁茂的年華,那時(shí)候他將成長為強(qiáng)大的俄耳甫斯式的詩人。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
that a lot of people who voted for him have been waiting for, will kind of get put into place.
許多為他投票的選民所期待的政策就能實(shí)行。
有名的畢業(yè)生 - SpeakingMax英語口語達(dá)人

Her doctor is waiting for the results of some tests taken this week before starting treatment.
NEWSWEEK: Culture

When you wait for something or someone, you spend some time doing very little, because you cannot act until that thing happens or that person arrives.
waiting
A wait is a period of time in which you do very little, before something happens or before you can do something.
If something is waiting for you, it is ready for you to use, have, or do.
If you say that something can wait, you mean that it is not important or urgent and so you will deal with it or do it later.
You can use wait when you are trying to make someone feel excited, or to encourage or threaten them.
Wait is used in expressions such as wait a minute, wait a second, and wait a moment to interrupt someone when they are speaking, for example, because you object to what they are saying or because you want them to repeat something.
If an employee waits on you, for example, in a restaurant or hotel, they take orders from you and bring you what you want.
If you say that you can't wait to do something or can hardly wait to do it, you are emphasizing that you are very excited about it and eager to do it.
If you tell someone to wait and see, you tell them that they must be patient or that they must not worry about what is going to happen in the future because they have no control over it.

等待
Waiting is inevitable in any service organizations.
等待是任何一個服務(wù)系統(tǒng)都難以避免的。
計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)技術(shù)
等待

等待
In virtue of the device of absurdity and the motif of waiting in this play, it tends to remind people of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
由于該劇使用了荒誕的手法和等待的主題，人們很容易把它和貝克特的《等待戈多》聯(lián)系起來。
軍事學(xué)
等候