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

• Please wait on, will you? I'm just coming!
  请稍等片刻好吗？我就来！
• This servant will wait on your guests.
  这个服务员将为你的客人服务。
• 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。
• Now wait on orders, please repair fishing tools!
  现在等措施，请修理一下打捞工具！
• Wait on event occurrences with the select()( or a blocking read()) system call.
  使用select（）（或阻塞的read（））系统调用等待事件发生。
• The nouveau riche is hiring more people to wait on him and paying them more.
  这些暴发户们雇佣了更多的人来服侍他们，支付的工资也有所提高。
• We'll have to wait on line for40 minutes.
  我们还需要等40分钟才能开打。
• Mrs. Collins gave me leave to wait on you.
  柯林斯太太让我在这儿等你。
• We wait on your reply to our letter.
  我们等着你们的回信。
• 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。