wait for
collocation等待；等候
I'll wait for you at the station.
我会在车站等你。
等待；等候
waiting — present participle of wait
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等待；等候
To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
We waited twenty minutes for the bus to arrive.
我们等了二十分钟公共汽车才来。
延迟行动或移动直至某事件或时刻；保持被忽视或待命状态
To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
在伴侣或未婚夫/妻长期缺席期间保持忠诚
To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
wait
Base
原形
waits
3rd person
第三人称单数
waiting
-ing
现在分词
waited
Past
过去式
waited
Past participle
过去分词
She waits for the bus every day.
她每天等公交车。
They waited for an hour yesterday.
他们昨天等了一个小时。
I am waiting for my friend now.
我现在正在等我的朋友。
规则动词：等待
Please wait here while I check your reservation.
请在这里稍等，我查一下您的预订。
They waited until the rain stopped before leaving.
他们一直等到雨停才离开。
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等待；等候
I'll wait for you at the station.
我会在车站等你。
稍等一会儿
Wait a minute, I need to grab my keys.
等一下，我需要拿钥匙。
排队等候
We had to wait in line for over an hour.
我们不得不排队等了一个多小时。
等着瞧；观望
Let's just wait and see what happens.
我们就等着看会发生什么。
迫不及待
I can't wait to see you again.
我迫不及待想再见到你。
熬夜等待
Don't wait up for me tonight; I'll be late.
今晚别熬夜等我，我会很晚回来。
等着瞧；拭目以待
The manager asked us to wait and see how the new policy works before making any changes.
经理让我们先拭目以待，看看新政策的效果，然后再做改动。
无微不至地伺候某人；把某人照顾得妥妥帖帖
At the hotel, the staff waited on the guests hand and foot.
在酒店，工作人员对客人照顾得无微不至。
随时准备接替；待命
Three experienced managers are waiting in the wings to lead the department.
三位经验丰富的经理随时准备接替，带领这个部门。
等一下，等一下。你们还没听到过什么呢！
Spoken by Al Jolson in the 1927 film The Jazz Singer, this ad-libbed line was one of the first spoken lines in a feature-length talkie, marking the transition from silent films to sound.
这是阿尔·乔尔森在1927年电影《爵士歌手》中即兴说出的台词，也是有声故事片中最早的对白之一，标志着从无声电影向有声电影的转变。
等着瞧吧。
A key lyric from Aaron Burr's song 'Wait for It' in the musical Hamilton (2015), often quoted as a reminder to be patient and let events unfold.
这是音乐剧《汉密尔顿》（2015年）中阿伦·伯尔的歌曲《Wait for It》的一句关键歌词，常被引用以提醒人们耐心等待、静观其变。
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记法：服务员 waiter 的工作就是让你 wait（等候），看到 waiter 就想到 wait=等待。
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常交流、服务场所、一般书面语 wait 作动词表示“等待”时通常为中性用法，日常口语和书面语都很自然；若表示“忠贞地等待某人归来”则多用于文学或较正式叙述，较为书面化。
All six words rhyme with wait /weɪt/: their stressed vowel and final /t/ match. Spelling differs: -ate (late, state), -eat (great), -ait (trait, bait), -eigh (weight). Be careful: white /waɪt/ and waste /weɪst/ look similar but do not rhyme with wait.
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